well i'm japanese i was born in Tokyo :P i was just looking at how people teach japanese on youtube. But if he was tested he would get tht wrong. Every little detail has to be pretty close if you were taught it in school or in japan
i guess the best way for me to stamp the hiragana into my head is to just do what we did in school for handwriting...do pages of the same letter lol. I'll feel so good when i've mastered the hiragana and just have them all memorised. i guess it'll take awhile.
Hiragana is fairly easy to write and remember if you're really trying but the kanji... those damn things will give me a peptic ulcer before I get the hang of them. They frustrate me to no end:((
@xXglittterwitchXx BZZZ wrong Katakana is only used for foreign words and names and to put emphasis on a word. Hiragana is used for Japanese oriented words and particles, so most Japanese is hiragana. Hiragana shows up EVERYWHERE katakana only shows up once in a great while. Trust me I have many friends who live in Japan and I also already know hiragana and katakana as well as 800+ kanji. Also this guy uses INCORRECT stroke order.
@ladysaraby Wrong it's of little consequence if you don't mind your handwriting being worse than it could be and you're not planning on learning kanji. Since most of hiragana and katakana show up in the radicals and all kanji are made up of radicals. 1. you'll spend a few years extra time learning kanji 2. if you can't write the radicals correctly you have to learn stroke by stroke but in order to do that you also need correct order or it looks like a scribble. Thus, It's VERY important.
You're writing to the contrary. When upright, the Japanese writing starts from right to left. But otherwise, very good video. I'm learning Japanese, and is very cool. Oh, sorry if my English is bad, because I am Brazilian and I study more Japanese than English.
your 'sa', ' za' second strokes and the their third strokes are distant. ki, gi, sa and za should have closer distance between the bottom left stroke and the top right strokes. the brush end does not go far away from the surface of a sheet
keep on working on your handwriting.. it looks readable but very inbalanced at the moment. following heisig's advice made me fluent in the kanas and i've got my own "japanese" hand *proud*. Ganbattene!!!
@cbmminimitch depends, also you would call them characters in English, the Hiragana(most basic, preschoolers probably know them) has about 107 and the the Katakana(mainly used for foreign words) has the same amount, the Kanji which I believe were imported from china way back when has more than 80,000. As you can expect the Kanji is most difficult. Japanese students in High school still have to learn new ones.
I think you got the stroke order wrong for some characters. I did as well when I started because copying from a written text results in copying the character the most comfortable way we can, so in your case you firstly wrote the vertical stroke for the ka and then the kinda-semi circular stroke. It's the reversed way. I found it way less comfortable but thats it. You should watch videos with HAND written characters at the moment they're written so that you'll figure out the stroke order.
Wow your Japanese writing is so different to what I normally see. On your sa and ki your 'tail' is so far away from the rest! XP Oh well, it's prolly neater than mine.
I'm learning Japanese as well. I bought a child's hiragana practice book and I just translate everything in the book and COPY COPY COPY. BTW, u could add some background music or something to the vids so that it's not so eerily quiet. Just a thought, =)
The Japanese use both. Hiragana is composed of a mixture of Hiragana (shown above) as well as Kanji, Chinese characters. Katakana is used to phonetically spell out foreign words such as English.
jikes. your handwriting in hiragana is remarkable. I just started, and it kinda resembles to how the handwriting looks with fourth graders or something.
Wow, from the websites I have been learning stroke order from, that looks incredibly sloppy. I don't think that you are supposed to write it as you would cursive handwriting, but more as you would paiting words on a canvas. thats how the pros do it.
lol its not the entire alphabet, the first line he wrote is a i u e o then the next line is ka ki ku ke ko and hes basically changing the first letters before the vowels ....O_o erm but yeah its not the whole alphabet =]
you are really good, for the first day XD the first day, i couldnt even tell teh diff between め and ぬ haha. And you shouldnt try making it so uh, "cursive/script' like? At least not till later on, go with more traditional and then once you get the very discipline right, then slowly learn more loose strokes etc. but hey, that's me =)
when you do your "ki"s & "sa"s, why do you make the vertical line soo far away form the bottom lines, also you are forgeting to add some hooks & there are actually rules to the proportions of the lengths, it is very interesting how strict japanese rules are..
damn ppl showin attitude ey can someone show me how 2 write and speak in japanese ok the letter r i this video but i dont get it im srry can someone help me out plz thnx alot
Ok easy way to find out. Japanese people usually put english words to make it sound like japanese letters. My name is Raymond so it would be like Re U Mu N Do. Ge Ko or Ge e Ko
baka baka baka baka baka baka! im joking lol ± rules! sorry that is the best i can get for earth ソユロ is fun to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh sorry i had to write it in katakana so sorry if you can't understand but it is fun!!!!!!!零 (zero) pains ring!!!!!!!!! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lunch time itikimasu well bye!
it's always good to start out speaking ... most people do , but it would probably be more beneficial to learn a bit of hiragana as well . it sucks to go to a country and be fluent in speak , but completely illiterate ... reading is very important . :I
the reason why im learning hiragana will make japanese simple like learning the alphabet and you know what goes here and if they make a mistake or like to read then a go is the better way to have a banana at the monkey mall so remember dont have milk near a cow
yes . downwards and to the left . one reference would be Cure magazine ... find it at hot topic ~ XD [i think it's fun to buy them even though its in japanese ... hehe ~]
Okay I just need help with the knowing what the hell is the difference between Kana, Kanji and Hiragana??
I don't know.
Well Mostly kana...I don't really get kana that much because half of the symbols in kana are the same ones in Kanji. So can some please tell me how to use kana and when? Oh and why must the japanese write with kanji and hiragana. Like I basically want to know when I have to use hragana then kanji in a sentence.
Katakana or kana is an alphabet made for words borrowed from other languages. For example, "apatto" which means apartment in English, is written as: アパート.
Hiragana is a phonetic alphabet to show how words are pronounced. For example, "ie" which means house in English is written as: いえ.
Kanji are Chinese characters/symbols that have evolved overtime. They are used to show the meaning of the word. You need to know 1945 kanji/symbols to be literate in Japanese. The kanji for house is: 家.
whenever i try to look at Japanese symbols on my computer it comes up with these number things, can someone tell me how to change that. Cheers, o and good video!
i'm trying to learn japanese right now, when u speak japanese it's quiet easy for me cause i'm asian too, :) but to write in japanese is confusing lol
In Japan you aRe judge by how you write when you got to the S symbols you wrote them all like sloppy and you would get judge harshly by how you write and make you Ko symbol better. and there is no such thing as Si symbol like gaikokuSARU hada said its Shi but keep trying just write the Hirigana better
well , he said he was practicing and made the video to help people find a way to memorize them . it doesn't matter so much at the beginner stage . he can look up the stroke order later . XD
ok,i noticed the S's the most,when you wrote "sa" they line and the cross thingy were to far apart :\ and your "si" is slightly crooked,but it's way better then me !!! :D
Your handwriting is cool and your method of learning shows determination. I think you'll learn Japanese fairly quick compared to most people if you keep up your disciplined practice sessions. :)
i started learning the hiragana yesterday, cuz im starting learning japanese, and after a 2/3 hurs, i was able to read all the kanas (close to 94 think)... but when its time to write... i'll practise today so i remember when they say the sound ^^
well,to me katakana is less strokes,and makes it less complex as hiragana,and katakana is written with a different brush that is skinier and hiragana is complex and has more strokes and is uses a brush to write them
yes , but if you learn katakana first then you won't beable to read as much . hiragana is used so much more often , so even though you may think katakana easier , its not as useful . but , if you're not planning on traveling to japan or don't plan on talking with a japanese person , it doesn't matter what you learn . XD
katakana is like the phonetic version of japanese, you would use it for a word like 'computer' but not for other japanese words. thats what kanji and hiragana are for ^^
i found katakana much easier to learn. at first, hiragana look very similar to each other. most courses teach hiragana first though because its more important.
don't write katakana off though, you wont succeed in japanese web browsing without it
ye do hiragana,katakana is for names from western parts of the world,and aren't use much for writing japanese,hiragana on the other hand are for writing japanese,and once you learn them you can really write japanese
HELPZ! im starting to write hiragana, i can write up to "SO" but the person who posted this vid put the line ontop of the "u" going vertical, but i write it horizantal, which one is the correct one?
for katakana it goes verticaly but for hiragana it goes horizantaly. but theres lots of different ways of writing different kanas it gets really confusing im still learning myself. if someone tells you different then me dont get mad at me cause im not 100% sure im right. like i said im still learnin! XD
I'd be nice if you had clear fingers though so we could see as you write, I've also been learning to write Japanese, because I find their writing to be fascinating. Those crazy Japanese, have crazy writing. Oh and I'm not saying that Japanese people are crazy although they do have some crazy t.v. shows.
i am currently learning taking classes so that i can learn japanese and i must say that if i had a brain like yours it would be a lot easier to memorize vocab
Yeah people generally handwrite u in katakana that way but the difference it makes is unbelievably small because even if it mattered to the reader, the writer would get the benefit of the doubt
lol@Su X) that's classic
RdjPita 2 months ago
Your A is a little off. It's suppose to be more balance not as wide as you wrote it
iSt0leYourPocky 4 months ago
@iSt0leYourPocky
well i'm japanese i was born in Tokyo :P i was just looking at how people teach japanese on youtube. But if he was tested he would get tht wrong. Every little detail has to be pretty close if you were taught it in school or in japan
iSt0leYourPocky 4 months ago
Hm not bad but great if this is your first day.
:)
fitguy678 6 months ago
i guess the best way for me to stamp the hiragana into my head is to just do what we did in school for handwriting...do pages of the same letter lol. I'll feel so good when i've mastered the hiragana and just have them all memorised. i guess it'll take awhile.
SupErMasSiVepancake 8 months ago in playlist japanese
reminds me of my old days learning japanese~
thelalaman 9 months ago
Hiragana is fairly easy to write and remember if you're really trying but the kanji... those damn things will give me a peptic ulcer before I get the hang of them. They frustrate me to no end:((
ladysaraby 11 months ago
@ladysaraby
There are over 50,000 kanji, you don't have to know them all :) Even native japanese don't know them all ;)
AlreadyHerePL 4 months ago
This is hiragana but most people write in Katakana now cuz its new-er
xXglittterwitchXx 1 year ago
@xXglittterwitchXx BZZZ wrong Katakana is only used for foreign words and names and to put emphasis on a word. Hiragana is used for Japanese oriented words and particles, so most Japanese is hiragana. Hiragana shows up EVERYWHERE katakana only shows up once in a great while. Trust me I have many friends who live in Japan and I also already know hiragana and katakana as well as 800+ kanji. Also this guy uses INCORRECT stroke order.
Emoanimeotaku 1 year ago 2
@Emoanimeotaku Does he get them written well? Do you understand the letter he's writting... if so the order is of little consequence.
ladysaraby 11 months ago
@ladysaraby Wrong it's of little consequence if you don't mind your handwriting being worse than it could be and you're not planning on learning kanji. Since most of hiragana and katakana show up in the radicals and all kanji are made up of radicals. 1. you'll spend a few years extra time learning kanji 2. if you can't write the radicals correctly you have to learn stroke by stroke but in order to do that you also need correct order or it looks like a scribble. Thus, It's VERY important.
Emoanimeotaku 11 months ago
@Emoanimeotaku
Notice how this is his first day?
VentureTact 6 months ago
€¥£ dunno :3
alexanderman3916 1 year ago
You're writing to the contrary. When upright, the Japanese writing starts from right to left. But otherwise, very good video. I'm learning Japanese, and is very cool. Oh, sorry if my English is bad, because I am Brazilian and I study more Japanese than English.
あなたが逆に書いている。時はまっすぐ、日本語の文章の開始は右から左へ。しかし、それ以外の場合は、非常に良いビデオ。私は、日本語を勉強していると非常にクールです。ああ、私はブラジル人ので、私は最近、日本語を勉強が悪く、申し訳ありません私の日本の場合。
バイバイ！
Cassianinho 1 year ago
I hope I can learn Japanese someday! It's such a beautiful language <3
PurpleSparkle2007 1 year ago 8
your 'sa', ' za' second strokes and the their third strokes are distant. ki, gi, sa and za should have closer distance between the bottom left stroke and the top right strokes. the brush end does not go far away from the surface of a sheet
roygbiv330 1 year ago
You should write the right part of the "i" not so long (just as the little line of ka). Otherwise it could be mixed up with "ri" ;)
Padarom 1 year ago
Did you now this?? Japanese is much easier to finnish people than english? And finnish is easier to japanese people than english? :)
The1movies 1 year ago
keep on working on your handwriting.. it looks readable but very inbalanced at the moment. following heisig's advice made me fluent in the kanas and i've got my own "japanese" hand *proud*. Ganbattene!!!
TheObaachan 1 year ago
omg i am so jeoulse of you T-T you are good at writing! i am not good at all T.T
dangokagome 1 year ago
i carnt do that it is hard
Biancalee95 1 year ago
im confused..... how many alphabets do japan have?? and wat r they called :S
cbmminimitch 1 year ago
@cbmminimitch depends, also you would call them characters in English, the Hiragana(most basic, preschoolers probably know them) has about 107 and the the Katakana(mainly used for foreign words) has the same amount, the Kanji which I believe were imported from china way back when has more than 80,000. As you can expect the Kanji is most difficult. Japanese students in High school still have to learn new ones.
Pikachunojutsu 1 year ago
@cbmminimitch hiragana, for regular Japanese words
katakana, for names and as a replacement of itallic letters
kanji...is no alphabet, but it's used as much as possible by most Japanese people, as far as I know.
I think there's also something called furigana, that is hiragana on top of kanji's. (how to pronounce them)
dodongo1991 1 year ago
I think you got the stroke order wrong for some characters. I did as well when I started because copying from a written text results in copying the character the most comfortable way we can, so in your case you firstly wrote the vertical stroke for the ka and then the kinda-semi circular stroke. It's the reversed way. I found it way less comfortable but thats it. You should watch videos with HAND written characters at the moment they're written so that you'll figure out the stroke order.
Shouriko 1 year ago
your going the wrong way.
DeiDeiDannaUn 1 year ago
Wow your Japanese writing is so different to what I normally see. On your sa and ki your 'tail' is so far away from the rest! XP Oh well, it's prolly neater than mine.
zaldude 1 year ago
I'm learning Japanese as well. I bought a child's hiragana practice book and I just translate everything in the book and COPY COPY COPY. BTW, u could add some background music or something to the vids so that it's not so eerily quiet. Just a thought, =)
dagger09 1 year ago
Pls.,Try to more speed...,
If you have to write in real , You write it's don't help you for any thing..,
Bonn999 1 year ago
whitch alphabet do people in japan use katakana or hiragana
kingdom1456 2 years ago
both and also other two, kanji and kana which is a combination of katakana and hiragana.
Amychelle14 1 year ago
they use both alphabet
grensensation 1 year ago
The Japanese use both. Hiragana is composed of a mixture of Hiragana (shown above) as well as Kanji, Chinese characters. Katakana is used to phonetically spell out foreign words such as English.
pitawita 1 year ago
its matter of what u wanna write down.
They use Hiragana for suffixes and others, and for some words.
They use Katakana for words that came from other languages, like pen (means pen).
They use kanji for normal words like fire, earth, water, god,etc...
Was this useful for u?
Maximithus 1 year ago
you're so good :O
I started writing and it's not even close to how little kids write -_-''
the spacing is kind of hard for me.. any tips?
KChoNguyen 2 years ago
how are you learning? i sub you if you tell me O_o
thor6000 2 years ago
jikes. your handwriting in hiragana is remarkable. I just started, and it kinda resembles to how the handwriting looks with fourth graders or something.
Gothochblandat 2 years ago
nice handwriting and pen
woopass1234 2 years ago
lol...When I mess up I do the same thing too,I copy it 10 times or till I get it right.
monkeyclosetclosed 2 years ago
Wow, from the websites I have been learning stroke order from, that looks incredibly sloppy. I don't think that you are supposed to write it as you would cursive handwriting, but more as you would paiting words on a canvas. thats how the pros do it.
btyler4606 2 years ago
hey can u translate this for me?! I have been trying to know what this means DDX わたしは、あなたを愛しています
lovly10000000000 2 years ago
"I'm in love with you" I think
Sargenta0Pimienta 2 years ago
thankies for the help :DD
lovly10000000000 2 years ago
it means I LOVE YOU
binaraf01 2 years ago
my translator says Me, I love you
Nickj109 2 years ago
lol what does it say??
omgcooiyo 2 years ago
is this the entire alphabet??????
i really wanna know!!!
: -(
edil56 2 years ago
no haha hiragana is 1 'alphabet' katakana is another (together they are called kana) and they also use alot of kangi
rws96 2 years ago
lol its not the entire alphabet, the first line he wrote is a i u e o then the next line is ka ki ku ke ko and hes basically changing the first letters before the vowels ....O_o erm but yeah its not the whole alphabet =]
crunchyliscious 2 years ago
this is the hiragana there are 46 characters to speel out japanese words
macjames321 2 years ago
yay japan lol
ninjutsuspecalist 2 years ago
im learning how to speak it...i need to noe how to write it also..and it wuld be helpful if somone wuld tell me a website to learn japanese =)
funnyvidz13 2 years ago
japanesepod101 (dot) com
=]
crunchyliscious 2 years ago
なぜそこの上に文字ですか？
r3ality3 2 years ago
define "Normal" because English is so foreign to Japanese people too. =P
iareryc3 2 years ago 34
Where are you learning? After a single day you write so neatly? At least I think, I cannot read Japanese. :'( I wish I could
HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo 2 years ago
this looks interesting ^_^
Panchokun1318 2 years ago 2
I love japanesse
Sakura7599 2 years ago 53
Don't we all?
Quashaun1994 2 years ago 4
zomgz u started ont eh same day as me <3 LOL awesome lol
Snowbombz 2 years ago
A I U E O :'D XD x song x
JeZebeL2600 2 years ago
ka ki ku ke ko!
gotyx1 2 years ago 3
i wanna learn that thing.
i think i can memorize that strokes soon because i am a stenographer student before.
143mik 2 years ago
im learning to write in japaneese too
latoyabatey 2 years ago
I'm learning how to speak it, can you tell me where can I find a website that I can learn Japanese? I will be very thankful!
Quashaun1994 2 years ago 3
I understand u very well, coz I currently attending a japanese class. Just keep on trying, that's I always telling my self
dolcesonata 2 years ago
わ め ね ぬ れ what does this mean
galindo999 2 years ago
somthing like
i nenured for the first time
idk wat nenured means
shoogeveen 2 years ago
わ = wa
め = me
ね = ne
ぬ = nu
れ = re
Kexogoesmcrlover 2 years ago
Cool!
Quashaun1994 2 years ago
わ め ね ぬ れ
Xoman2000 2 years ago
you are really good, for the first day XD the first day, i couldnt even tell teh diff between め and ぬ haha. And you shouldnt try making it so uh, "cursive/script' like? At least not till later on, go with more traditional and then once you get the very discipline right, then slowly learn more loose strokes etc. but hey, that's me =)
Nicaud92 3 years ago
i feel like crying. i am trying to learn to write in japanese but it is so strict!
neongirl1997 3 years ago
I hate writing the wa, me, ne, nu and the re.
わ め ね ぬ れ I fucking hate these. LOL
msanchez007 3 years ago
Actually I love writing め, but I had to write it a hundred times before i could do it fluently.
kentaku704 2 years ago
when you do your "ki"s & "sa"s, why do you make the vertical line soo far away form the bottom lines, also you are forgeting to add some hooks & there are actually rules to the proportions of the lengths, it is very interesting how strict japanese rules are..
urbansketch94 3 years ago
hey, you don't know how to write SU and ZU correctly!
mostarski 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
1.Say your crushes name two times.
2.Say your best friends name five times.
3.Post this to 5 videos.
4.press F8 and your crushes name will appear
linkrulesliketurkey1 3 years ago
is that the alphabet???
vietXkittenX98 3 years ago
Comment removed
Despairfromme 3 years ago
yea it is =]
Despairfromme 3 years ago
honestly, your Ka looks like a Ya...
O0oXxLladnarxXo0O 3 years ago
MY friend is teaching me how to write in japanese but she says i should learn how to speak it first
AkatsukiNinjaLuvr 3 years ago
doesanyone no any good web sites that fully explain how to write and understand japanese characters? hopefully with no pay or download
kakashi1578 3 years ago
nihongoresources . com
allsmiles432 3 years ago
google nihongoresources
allsmiles432 3 years ago
damn ppl showin attitude ey can someone show me how 2 write and speak in japanese ok the letter r i this video but i dont get it im srry can someone help me out plz thnx alot
LUVINGguatemala 3 years ago
does anyone know how to write nikki
in japanese symbols?
twistedlover30 3 years ago
にっき
Akatsukilover 3 years ago 2
If you mean the name then it would be ニッキ (in katakana not hiragana)
wowtrax 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Fuck you. They never specified what "nikki" was. I thought they were having trouble with the double "k" You stupid asshole. >_>
Akatsukilover 3 years ago
lol no need to get so angry o.O
wowtrax 3 years ago 3
lol
Akatsukilover 3 years ago
i know some japanese but i need 助けて! with some words
narutos323 3 years ago
How do you write GECKO in japanese???
LynchMeXD 3 years ago
げこ
chinotan0628 3 years ago
Ok easy way to find out. Japanese people usually put english words to make it sound like japanese letters. My name is Raymond so it would be like Re U Mu N Do. Ge Ko or Ge e Ko
Ziece4 3 years ago
ゲッコ not げこ because of the double Consonant "ck" and it is a foreign word
bscc89 3 years ago
be careful when drawing your "i" mate; the first line is longer, some may mistake it as ri otherwise. ;)
lattywatty 3 years ago
I hate ten-ten marks i think people should learn the basics then the ten-ten marks would make it easier.
ka か ga が
ki き gi ぎ
ten-ten marks as i can say make the sond deep
ki when said deeper is gi if that makes since.
and this is ひらがな = hiragana
pinkydragon9 3 years ago
cool i know some japanese!
like my homemade manga is : 情け容赦の恐怖
LowRider220 3 years ago
is this a to z?
aehsmc 3 years ago
no
first line is a-i-u-e-o
next line if u can see at the top it says a K
so ka ki ku ke ko then ga gi gu ge go much simular but has a ten-ten mark example
ka か ga が the little symbols on top ('') is a ten-ten mark makes the vowel deeper so ka with ten-ten mark makes it a ga, help?
pinkydragon9 3 years ago
baka baka baka baka baka baka! im joking lol ± rules! sorry that is the best i can get for earth ソユロ is fun to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh sorry i had to write it in katakana so sorry if you can't understand but it is fun!!!!!!!零 (zero) pains ring!!!!!!!!! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lunch time itikimasu well bye!
sasori598 3 years ago
uhm quastion wht do you do "on the g and z ???
cuz i am gona learn japanese to but i think the way like you :)
ZaneTuesdale14 3 years ago
ohh nice... im learning japanese too... but im learning how speak.. writing in japanese is just confusing..
darkangel01121992 3 years ago
it's always good to start out speaking ... most people do , but it would probably be more beneficial to learn a bit of hiragana as well . it sucks to go to a country and be fluent in speak , but completely illiterate ... reading is very important . :I
TenorSaxy 3 years ago
the reason why im learning hiragana will make japanese simple like learning the alphabet and you know what goes here and if they make a mistake or like to read then a go is the better way to have a banana at the monkey mall so remember dont have milk near a cow
LOL
larrydobleX 3 years ago
so japanese people right down?
xxxxxxxxxxx Fran
shugochara369 3 years ago
yes . downwards and to the left . one reference would be Cure magazine ... find it at hot topic ~ XD [i think it's fun to buy them even though its in japanese ... hehe ~]
TenorSaxy 3 years ago
why you write so fast and what is the " ther right above???
elfi123456 3 years ago
That continues the alphabet.. say it goes ka ki ku ke ko, it goes to Ga gi gu ge go..
Yukipama 3 years ago
nonon, whats with the 'Ki' letter, it isnt ment to have a gap, thats just to make it look good
CNEWHA3 3 years ago
Okay I just need help with the knowing what the hell is the difference between Kana, Kanji and Hiragana??
I don't know.
Well Mostly kana...I don't really get kana that much because half of the symbols in kana are the same ones in Kanji. So can some please tell me how to use kana and when? Oh and why must the japanese write with kanji and hiragana. Like I basically want to know when I have to use hragana then kanji in a sentence.
Please some one help me ^^
onyxzalover 3 years ago
Katakana or kana is an alphabet made for words borrowed from other languages. For example, "apatto" which means apartment in English, is written as: アパート.
Hiragana is a phonetic alphabet to show how words are pronounced. For example, "ie" which means house in English is written as: いえ.
Kanji are Chinese characters/symbols that have evolved overtime. They are used to show the meaning of the word. You need to know 1945 kanji/symbols to be literate in Japanese. The kanji for house is: 家.
Yokoi483 3 years ago
whenever i try to look at Japanese symbols on my computer it comes up with these number things, can someone tell me how to change that. Cheers, o and good video!
muhatgandy 3 years ago
i'm trying to learn japanese right now, when u speak japanese it's quiet easy for me cause i'm asian too, :) but to write in japanese is confusing lol
beole007 3 years ago
im Japanese, need some help?
pekingeserock3 3 years ago
i forgot to say that what you are doing is the same thing i did to learn Hirigana and Katakana, keep trying and just write better
juju6018 3 years ago
In Japan you aRe judge by how you write when you got to the S symbols you wrote them all like sloppy and you would get judge harshly by how you write and make you Ko symbol better. and there is no such thing as Si symbol like gaikokuSARU hada said its Shi but keep trying just write the Hirigana better
juju6018 3 years ago
the ki, su and so isnt written correctly and when you wrote ka the stroke order was wrong.
TubeYou2848 3 years ago 2
well , he said he was practicing and made the video to help people find a way to memorize them . it doesn't matter so much at the beginner stage . he can look up the stroke order later . XD
TenorSaxy 3 years ago
it is important to write japanese character correctly if you are studying japanese!
why do you want to teach someone incorrectly even if it is slight mistake?
TubeYou2848 3 years ago
thats true . XD;; just trying to find the positive side i suppose . ^-^'
TenorSaxy 3 years ago
why are you talking about katakana? i never even mentioned it.....
TubeYou2848 3 years ago
MONKEYS hah monkeys
larrydobleX 3 years ago
I do not think that there is an obstacle if it lives in the city in Japan if the
hiragana and the katakana are remembered and the daily conversation is understood.
Recently, there are a lot of animated cartoons and manga translated with youtube.
It can be studied early that it is seen if it likes manga and anime.
sea777story777 3 years ago
ok,i noticed the S's the most,when you wrote "sa" they line and the cross thingy were to far apart :\ and your "si" is slightly crooked,but it's way better then me !!! :D
gaikokuSARU 3 years ago
what type of do they use more freqently in japan and which one do they use more frequently for anime shows do you know?
popopluto 3 years ago
what type of do they use more freqently in japan and which one do they use more frequently for anime shows do you know?
popopluto 3 years ago
Your handwriting is cool and your method of learning shows determination. I think you'll learn Japanese fairly quick compared to most people if you keep up your disciplined practice sessions. :)
laracroftroxmysox 3 years ago 2
i started learning the hiragana yesterday, cuz im starting learning japanese, and after a 2/3 hurs, i was able to read all the kanas (close to 94 think)... but when its time to write... i'll practise today so i remember when they say the sound ^^
co23ghttoe 4 years ago
is katana easier to learn than hirogana? please message me the answer please
Angelus1745 4 years ago
Is katakana easier to learn than hiragana? Pkease message me the answer please
Angelus1745 4 years ago
katakana is similar to hiragana, and itd be easier to learn hiragana first
lifelesslink 4 years ago
well,to me katakana is less strokes,and makes it less complex as hiragana,and katakana is written with a different brush that is skinier and hiragana is complex and has more strokes and is uses a brush to write them
gaikokuSARU 3 years ago
yes , but if you learn katakana first then you won't beable to read as much . hiragana is used so much more often , so even though you may think katakana easier , its not as useful . but , if you're not planning on traveling to japan or don't plan on talking with a japanese person , it doesn't matter what you learn . XD
TenorSaxy 3 years ago
katakana is like the phonetic version of japanese, you would use it for a word like 'computer' but not for other japanese words. thats what kanji and hiragana are for ^^
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeets 4 years ago
i found katakana much easier to learn. at first, hiragana look very similar to each other. most courses teach hiragana first though because its more important.
don't write katakana off though, you wont succeed in japanese web browsing without it
NMRA 4 years ago
u should learn first hiragana, cuz its the base... then katakana and kanjis.
co23ghttoe 4 years ago
ye do hiragana,katakana is for names from western parts of the world,and aren't use much for writing japanese,hiragana on the other hand are for writing japanese,and once you learn them you can really write japanese
tehn go to katakana,then kanji
gaikokuSARU 3 years ago
personally, i think katakana is much easier. hiragana characters appear to be more similiar and are more complex.
boredtaco 3 years ago
if your doing just katakana then you did great if your did hiragana 2 then you FAILED,much much much better than me
stickfig56 4 years ago
HELPZ! im starting to write hiragana, i can write up to "SO" but the person who posted this vid put the line ontop of the "u" going vertical, but i write it horizantal, which one is the correct one?
LeoTokyo 4 years ago
for katakana it goes verticaly but for hiragana it goes horizantaly. but theres lots of different ways of writing different kanas it gets really confusing im still learning myself. if someone tells you different then me dont get mad at me cause im not 100% sure im right. like i said im still learnin! XD
Rasendori1377 4 years ago
it's a matter of style.. his 'u' is not vertical, it's a little slanted..
i write it horizontal like u...
cheers!
hellojeffo 4 years ago
waaah.. wat was he writing? *XD
ImJustInfamous 4 years ago
hiragana
ostatniecycki 4 years ago
I'd be nice if you had clear fingers though so we could see as you write, I've also been learning to write Japanese, because I find their writing to be fascinating. Those crazy Japanese, have crazy writing. Oh and I'm not saying that Japanese people are crazy although they do have some crazy t.v. shows.
mbrown187 4 years ago 2
it's just cuz there obviosly unique!!plus they r my #1 country! anime!!check! Manga!! check!hentai! chek check!!!!!!!!!!!!!japan ROX!!!!
kjjl2 4 years ago
very smart.
i am currently learning taking classes so that i can learn japanese and i must say that if i had a brain like yours it would be a lot easier to memorize vocab
great job ^_^
kira478 4 years ago
when doing the "u" try not to make the top not too straight up, i think that makes the katakana "u" or something
joshuaguinto 4 years ago
Yeah people generally handwrite u in katakana that way but the difference it makes is unbelievably small because even if it mattered to the reader, the writer would get the benefit of the doubt
NMRA 4 years ago
Ookini
Yahatacookiesan 4 years ago
You write hiragana very nicely :>
izzyisozaki 4 years ago
first column is just
a
i
u
e
o
danlearnsjapanese 4 years ago
The first column is
a
i
u
e
o
?
sinerix 4 years ago
Not Bad...two questions though...
1. How long have you been doing this altogether?
2.Where do you learn the info from?
Plz answer back on a comment on my page...thanks
guruhughru 4 years ago