Learn Japanese Colors

[808raised]

Why is it that sometimes the colors have an extra "i" sound at the end?

Blue: ao - aoi

Black: kuro - kuroi

White: shiro - shiroi?

[RUL1S88]

@808raised

Words change in a different ways when they are used in sentences.

[TeduNilem]

@808raised @808raised Well, ao, kuro, shiro are all nouns. But they are usually used an adjective in a sentence. That 'i' converts them to adjectives. Also when you are saying `it was blue...` etc. It helps you convert them to other tenses as well. Such as ao-i becomes ao-katta, if you are saying `it was blue.` You can also make them adverbs by changing that 'i' to 'ku'. Shiro-i becomes 'Shiro-ku' for example.

[immortalindian22]

lol i knew black and white because of blackbeard and whitebeard in one piece

[bratzkidzrulz]

there was no pink =(

[japanesepod101]

@bratzkidzrulz Pink is ピンク (pinku)

[bratzkidzrulz]

@japanesepod101 thanks =) but do you pronounce the u?

[jpoplyrics]

@bratzkidzrulz it's pinku or momo iro as in peach color because the peaches in Japan are pink.

[dohc1974]

I got them all down! Yaaata!!

[simsvideoshahaha]

failure of a quiz. everything was going fine until the quiz. it's obvious that 2:02 is blue, i thought I was going to be quizzed on my japanese...

but either than that, it was okay.

[gwajadanji]

i envious of japanese girls' cute voices.^^;

[Matsuyamanokage]

I wonder.. if the colors + "i" = adjective for color, then what is the adjective for orange as an adjective? Is it the same and you just add the "i"?

Thank you.

[Clearie552]

@Matsuyamanokage All the words shown in the video are noun colors, so you can use them like 赤の犬　Ｏｒ　犬は赤　some of them can also be used an -な adjectives, and some of them have い adjective variants. you can look them up in the dictionary. for example I got no results for みどりい but I did get 茶色い.

[Mochikyan50]

There was something I've always been curious about. A lot of times I'll see black spelled 黒い and white 白い. In fact in my Kanji book they're spelled that way. So does the い at the end matter or is it just a different way to pronounce it?

[Duncanmn]

@Mochikyan50

Without the "i" at the end, it's just the name of the colour. (i.e. a noun.) With the "i", it becomes an adjective. It's a bit tricky, because it's all the same in English, but remember that kuro = the colour black and kuroi = the adjective black. For example, you would say "Kuroi neko ga iru" (There is a black cat) with an "i" because we're talking about an adjective. However, the noun itself is kuro.

[Mochikyan50]

@Duncanmn Oh that makes sense! Thanks for clearing that up! ^3^

[evaamv]

Video: Kiyilo, Ki-yi-lo

Me: Here We Go?

(Any one know the reference!?)

[brett6666]

Holy Shit Green is going to be hard to draw o.o

[Nekomaxx]

@brett6666

I ordered a book called A Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese, it's very helpful in learning the stroke order for kanji.

[BearGryllSurvival]

Or is it just in かたかな ?

[usemoselnitro]

@BearGryllSurvival you can't write katakana in hiragana LAWL

[BearGryllSurvival]

What do the bottom letters mean? I only know the hiragana letters...

[hematitecrow]

@BearGryllSurvival you mean the kanji?

[BearGryllSurvival]

@hematitecrow No, like how do you know/remember what they are? Like do certain letters make up a specific stroke in the Kanji... Or is it like the (forth language)?

[hematitecrow]

@BearGryllSurvival Nah it's just another version of representing the japanese uh, words. Like you could chose to write a string of hiragana, or you could write a single kanji with the same pronunciation. Like the '黄' is pronounced "ki" etc. Just memorise the word by it's pronounciation, and the meaning when put together.

[KairiKatane]

If any of you guys have watched or finished Shugo Chara, this is how I remember White:

White= Shiro

MaSHIRO Rima

*Hoped that helped, it did for me!*

[genuinebbuck]

Blue, 蒼 or 青 I've seen both and went through a lot of trouble when I was first learning Kanji to learn 蒼 which is correct out of the 2?

[mydearcassandra]

@genuinebbuck

Both are correct.

蒼 is, however, a bit old-fashioned and most Japanese people cannot write it.

So you don't need to worry about it.

[swordpetals]

Ooops I meant midori no hibi

[swordpetals]

I only remeber the name for green cuz it's part of an anime I love, midori no hibiscus. Green=Midori

[Talkingcamara2]

For white, it sounds like you are saying "Shiro" but I thought white was "Shiroi"? Tha's how i've heard it in songs. And for blue, I thought it was Aoi? It sounds like your saying Ao... And with red, it sounds like your saying Aka, but the way I have heard it in songs is Akai?

[NekomimiChanNyaa]

@Talkingcamara2 I don't know if you have found the answer for this already, but I'll just tell you xD It works both ways

[mydearcassandra]

@Talkingcamara2

'i' at the end of each word means it is Adjective.

For instance, you can say "akai ringo (a red apple)" or "ringo wa akai. (Apples are red.)"

But when you asked "What color is this apple ?" in Japanese, you are expected to reply "aka desu. (It's red.)"

[HewieOfHG]

Hey sunny boy I think the colors of the screen kind of gave away what color it was in japanese now if you mixed them up and changed the color then test us it would be a bit harder or dont show any color of the screen at all just some food for thought

[rachel45671]

how do you say names in japanese? i think my name in katakana is ﾚｲﾁｪﾙ, correct?

[TheChocoloco95]

@rachel45671 i think so.. it's either that or rei-cha-ruレイチャル

[rachel45671]

@TheChocoloco95 thanks!

[TheChocoloco95]

@rachel45671 no pwoblem!

[niHonRanDomSnippeR]

The Easiest one for me to remember is brown, because the first character is 茶, which I believe is Tea. So, since the color of a lot of teas are brown, and only a few other colors have the "iro" ending, so after that it becomes easy: Cha-iro (茶色).

[ilovekyokyoxD]

the color pink "pinku" also means porno!!!!!!!!!!

[myhammiebagel]

i only remember white (shiro) cuz its my anime fav. characters name, and blue cuz its owwwwwl! xD

[cheech5102]

after watching this once, the only ones I will probably remember are blue because it obviously sounds like "OWWW!", and black and red because I am a huge Kuroshitsuji fan :D

[RareEmerauld86]

LOL It was funny when it was guess-time. I got ready and the screen was black... I didn't realize it already started until it suddenly said "kuro!"

[Gigglez765]

I know them all!　But I always get 青　And 赤　Mixed up！　（＾＾；）

[lovexallxasian]

Yaaaay!!! Im learningXD i got them all right except for two clorosO_O lol

[wannabejapanesechica]

blue, like when you get a bruise, you say OW

[ScenexxEmo]

I lost track. A good way of getting people to remember is to sat it first in Japanese then English then Japanese again.... That is, if they are American.

[Inuyashamakoto]

you can also say orange as daidaiiro

[Hetzeegaryu1]

Oh, I thought that "grey" was "gurei" but I'm impressed that it was "hai iro", what it means: "Ash colour". Mmm, interesting!

[JapanBefor]

ge n ki de su

[JapanBefor]

ge n ki de su

[ikegami1jp]

@MrDar3k Katakana is for transcribing foreign loan words that aren't native to Japanese.The origin of the word doesn't have to be english at all.Hence,orenji for orange.That colour came to Japan by way of the Dutch.

[Ragensu64]

is purple kurasaki or hurasaki or murasaki??

[zigyou44]

@Ragensu64 Purple is murasaki.

[Ragensu64]

@zigyou44 owh

[yessure100]

I am Tibetan. Thanks so much for the videos!! so fun to learn!!

[dorkievaj]

this is fun ^ ^ makes me want to learn all day and i was wondering out of kanji, haragana, and katakana..which one is most use in japan?

[101mahina]

@dorkievaj I know your comment is kinda old... But the writing system that is mostly used in Japan is Hiragana. Having Hiragana, Kanji, and Katakana is less likely to happen then having just Hiragana and Kanji.

[joe80dman]

Kanji, Hiragana... How many Japanese dialects are there?

[MrDar3k]

@joe80dman they are not dialects they are alphabets and they are 3,

katakana which is used to "transform" english words into japanese (almost the same pronnounciation), hiragana which is used to write japanese words and the kanji which is used (as far as I know) to write some japanese words, in most cases if there is a kanji there are the hiraganas on top of it in case you dont know that kanji, I know only katakana and hiragana and for now im good ;P

[joe80dman]

@MrDar3k : Wow! This is more complicated than what I had perceived it to be. I only wished Japanese would have been taught to us whilst we were in elementary school. It would have been much easier then.

[joetioeb]

@joe80dman You forgot katakana.

They're not dialects though.

[joe80dman]

@joetioeb : What is "katakana"? As if this language isn't complicated enough as it is, you go and thrown me another category? I don't think even Rosetta Stone could teach a westerner this language.

[27victor27]

good

[27victor27]

good

[27victor27]

i am peruvian . i thank you for this video is so so so good

[pyramidsoldier123]

Orange looks like it has a smiley. ツ

[XXXJuXJitsuXLauraXXX]

I have found out that the first kanji 'hai' (in 'haiiro' = gray) means 'ash' or 'ashes' and I know that 'iro' (the second kanji) is 'color' so Gray is literally 'ash color' which I think is very clever because ashes are gray. ^^

[yamitanomura]

brown = color of the tea ... 茶cha 色iro

strange

[NicksonFujiwara]

@yamitanomura Yes, and "Haiiro" Color of ash^^

[Gojiramonsta505]

Kuro, LOL

[nielswolfgang]

I don't know if I'm going to be able to remember what orange is...

[trackmaniakid27]

you forgot pink which is pink u

[PussyCatDoll14]

Do you have to know both the kanji version and hiragana version of the word. It just seems very tedious and annoying...

[DAIGORO14]

how come most of the time 赤　is used but once in a while 紅　is used like 紅茶（こうちゃ）

[blauerninja]

watschi ga sakurairo daisuki.

[daedemona3]

ki or kiiro for yellow ??

what's the different?

[mewarmor990]

@daedemona3 When you add "iro" to the end, you specify that you are referring to the color yellow, as "iro" means color. 黄(ki)+色(iro)＝黄色(kiiro) By itself, the kanji "ki" may be used in other phrases that may or may not concern the color yellow.

[atree3]

two kinds of music

[DarkDuddest]

Hehe I am German and learn in the school English and Russian. At home I learn Japanese. Thanks for the great video.

[blauerninja]

@DarkDuddest Priwet. Ja tosche utschju japnoskij^^ (ich lern auch japanisch autodidaktisch)

[genuinebbuck]

@DarkDuddest What do you need so many languages for? I can understand Japanese, and English but the only thing I think is cool about russian is the accent, having a russian accent while speaking Japanese would be Bad Ass!

[GintokisGirl95]

I love to learn Kanji, but I suck at writing them lol.

[SilverGunZoO]

@GintokisGirl95 lol

[mewarmor990]

@GintokisGirl95 I'm fine with writing kanji, but I hate learning them, heh. I guess that's the result of having to put up all the rote memorization since childhood.

[GintokisGirl95]

@mewarmor990 I see. Makes sense, yeah.

[peterscoop]

i thought Blue in japanese is BRUE.... hehehe just joking.... lul

[intellaricovision]

Danke!...

Thank you!...

...for this great video.

I am learning German at school and Japanese at home.

[BlackAnimeSoul]

su go i! I´m learning French and English at school and Japanese at home ^-^ this makes fun, right? XD Japanese is such a beautiful language...thanks for uploading!

[olindadragonlvr]

I'm learning Spanish at school and Japanese at home. It is the best language^_^

[mashi384]

gold = kin

silver = gin

[TanitsuMe]

black = kuro white = shiro green = midori yellow = kiro blue = ao red = aka purple = murasaki gray = haiiro brown = chaiiro orange = orengi Arigato guzaimasu , korewa tanitsu desu , saiyo nara ...

[animefangirl20]

yellow is kiiro ->  きいろ　->　黄色

[nikkiwhite40]

I do believe this is my favorite one- or am i getting the hang of it??

[TheMisteranderson]

pink is 'pinku'. Very hard one to learn.

[bnmjy]

Yeah, pink is the hardest of them all...lol

[nikkiwhite40]

r u being sarcastic..?

[MiyaKipp2945]

''Pinku'' isnt hard at all it sounds very close to the english word. (pink-u) Too easy!

[paexou]

Axactly ! if some words similar like English they

are easily to remember. Like Hotel = Hoteru,

bed = beddo and there are some more.

[Ragensu64]

@TheMisteranderson and orange..

[deoxy999]

@TheMisteranderson I disagree. When I learned that, I thought "That was obvious!"

[SecretAgentPanda43]

you missed pinkk

[sasukerukia]

aaah~~ motto motto shukudai. i didnt hv time to visit ur vids till now.

[japanesepod101]

In Kanji, there's a bit of ambiguity between blue and green, but in most situations, 青 is used for blue - as Azimuth pointed out, in words like 青空, meaning "blue sky".

[ts65129]

omg... 青is blue in japanese?@@"

now only i now cuz it different then chinese word.

in chinese 青is green. lol...

[crzer07]

No, pretty sure 緑is also used for green in Chinese...

[AtomikNY]

Both 青 (qing) and 绿 (lü) are used for "green" in Chinese.

[ts65129]

"blue" in kanji above 青 is not correct

correction: 藍

青 is green

[Azimuth1]

No, 青 is fine.

Hence words like 青空.

[crzer07]

藍(ai) specifically means indigo, which is a shade somewhere between blue and violet... so you are close.

[WinterSina]

google says its green, so your right.

[moonflower0924]

dont show the color and spell the name in english

spell the pronounciation. duh!

[japanesepod101]

Hey moonflower,

The pronunciation is spelled out in Hiragana, the simpler Japanese characters.

I really recommend learning Hiragana as the first step in picking up Japanese.

There's lots of materials at our website to help you out!

[osakajinomoshiroi]

Arigatou gozaimashita!!! Benkyou ni narimashita!!

[VitalianiJ]

look at me im learning! ^_^

[Cybunny80]

congratz XD

[dxwingcom]

isn't the spelling of grey...GREY?

I saw gray in the video :)

[lsg5200]

It's gray... =)

[TVXQ111]

it depends on which part of the US you are in but, it is spelled both ways

[lsg5200]

well... understood =)

[Tammy166]

Grey = English English

Gray = American English

[erexford]

very nice!

[maxiewawa]

えええ

知らなかったんだ〜

[DeathStrawberry15]

知らないわけないだろう、マックスさん！

[maxiewawa]

jPod101はこんなビデオを造るのは知らないと言う意味。;­)

[DeathStrawberry15]

ああ　僕も知らなかった。 It wasn't in the feed.