Alyssa's Japanees Lesson 8

[Inspektisto]

Mi estas tre scivola kiel estas teon en japana lingvo.

[akaoru8sensei]

orenji iro?

[LoyalKat]

you forgot orange lol

[uchiharuin]

because there is no japanese for orange but "orinji".

[StridingCloud]

where is she? :(

[Rvpilot2]

Thank you for the video's I'm learning a lot from them.. Jya Mata

[youtubasoarus]

I wish you'd come back and do more videos. I've learned more watching these in the last few weeks than I have in the last 15 years!

[Aldurrah85]

Love ur videos!! now i can learn more japanese word!! .. thanks!!

[thr33threethr33]

this is my favorite one! well done! thanks for the lesson!

[fabiistar07]

i like ur videos!

i like this one cuz i learned my fav colors! lol

[Gaarasandlegend]

Thnx these videos you make really help me with japanese

[salmarrr]

i would learn astrophysics with this chick!

[jahlove111]

i've been looking for colors in japanese!

thanks soo much

[mserox000]

Are all R's pronounced as L's? Plz reply!!! Thanks

[ElectricNova1]

Japanese 'R's are pronounced like the Spanish ones. Perfect example: the music video of a Japanese band, the song is called "Maria". They say it the same way as the Mexicans say it.

[StridingCloud]

while knowing spanish helps immensely in pronouncing japanese words, the R sound is pronounced as an L sound, japanese speakers have no word or sound for R, but you still hear it sometimes, so its confused

[mimiyokei]

What is orange in japanese?

[jammydodgerbaby85]

I think someone mentioned in one of the earlier comments that it's daidaiiro.

[alyssaloveanselmi494]

thank you! im gonna watch all your videos im moving to japan in 5 years! my moms even got a saving account for me!

[Rukishou]

Can't you make a list of the kanji in your description, please? Because it's so hard to find them on the internet...

[JoulseyCupid]

man, I love that Ostrich thingee!

[JoulseyCupid]

Stop being a bakagaijin!

[IAmBecoming]

I think she's hapa kepani. Not that that matters but, I just thought I'd point that out.

[laracroftroxmysox]

Um...her hometown is Tokyo...

[ak9gun]

hello girl how do you say ...your my colour of love

[HoshiTachi]

you could say it anata wa boku no koi no iro desu. that's "you are the color of my love" or for exactly what you wanted to say "you're my color of love" its anata wa koi no boku no iro desu. hope it helps!

[Diresilver]

Orange is (daidaiiro)

and Grey is (haiiro)

since you guys have been asking.

[jammydodgerbaby85]

Ok....what about Gold and Silver?

[ElectricNova1]

Gold - Kin'iro (as in the color)

I thiiiink Silver is 'gin'. Not sure. Don't quote me on that. :3

[jammydodgerbaby85]

oh thank you! So gold and silver the colours and gold and silver the metals are different words?

[ElectricNova1]

Pretty much. Practically the same, but I think the "iro" part is replaced.

[jammydodgerbaby85]

That makes sense,

Iro = colour of.....

[VickytheDevil]

thank u! but how do u say for example "dark blue" or "light blue"? are there any other colors such as orange or grey? and... I knew that "black cat" is "kuroi neko". why is is kuroi and not just kuro? thank u!!!!!!

[HoshiTachi]

the i in kuroi symbolizes that kuro is an adjective, not just a color. kuro is a noun. so, to turn it from noun to adjective, they throw in an i. hope it helps =]

[laracroftroxmysox]

Well light blue is Mizu Iro (color of water), but that's all I know. :) Sorries

[VickytheDevil]

thank u anyways!i'm studying japanese at the college now, we've just started talking about adjectives but just black,red and white as colors have been introduced ^_^

I'm happy to be really studying japanese!

[jammydodgerbaby85]

wow! I wish I would have been able to learn Japanese in college! That would have been a cool subject. I'm just picking up bits here and there....mainly from anime! ^-^

[VickytheDevil]

yeah, I used to do that too, but it's an extremely confusing and misunderstanding method...unfortunately, japanese is not just ONE, but many languages! O_o

[darkangeldappie]

that was soo cool thanks :D Arigato!!!!

[needfunintokyo]

for pink people usually say pinku, the original Japanese for orange is daidai but no-one uses it anymore. Nicely presented.

[jammydodgerbaby85]

cool! Thank you!

[jammydodgerbaby85]

yay! I'm learning! I thought there was a coulor missing! So what's Orange?

[FoulAlice]

orenji おれんじ

it's engrish-ified "orange" lmao

[srgtnova]

you forgot orange ><

cool lesson though arigato

[snozberries99]

you do a very good job. keep it up.

[sale1001]

hi. good work

when you translated purple you said muLAsaki whereas you spelled murasaki.

why?

[jammydodgerbaby85]

whenever you see "R" it's usually pronounced "L" I think she mentions that in another vid.

[laracroftroxmysox]

Some people pronounce it L and others pronounce the R, but rolling their tongue. Some also pronounce it both rolling R and L with sounds kinda like a D sound...it's kinda cute actually...but yeah...no L in Japan :)

[jammydodgerbaby85]

I think I saw it explained as an "L" sound because it's easier to understand. Plus not everyone can roll their R's I actually pronounce it like an "R" but rolled, but it sounds like "L".

What a long winded explanation....glad I'm not the one doing these videos! ^-^

[laracroftroxmysox]

Heh, it's true that it's hard for some people. I guess I forgot not everyone is Puertorican like me :( LOL Well, now that that's cleared up...let's party *wuju*

[wave3]

That video is really useful ^^ Thank you for teaching us.

[SwitchRich]

Expected the pronunciation to be a bit shoddy as she was a westerner. I was wrong, it was bang-on. Good lesson.

[darkliquids]

that reminds me of the way some animes are titled, like: akazukin chacha-red riding hood chaha;midori no hibi-she had green hair.. i knew blue already- aoi sora,the japanese porn star.but why is hakudoushi translated as white child?

[jaenadar]

great vid', I like how you repeat the words slowly, very easy to hear what you say =)

[Rishieru]

are you japanese?

[XxLooseXSocksxX]

Can you help me understand something? I thought many of those colors had i at the end (akai, chairoi, aoi) how come you didn't have them like that? Please and thank you ^^

[fynnfish]

yeah,thats something i would also like to know.

[jj8585]

akai, chairoi, aoi etc, are adjectives, whereas aka, chairo, and ao etc are nouns.

[jammydodgerbaby85]

so in that case...would Kiiro be Kiiroi as an adjective?

[hapaloha]

yup!

[GothicPerson]

Can you do a video on tongue twisters?

[mamimisan]

YATTA!!! n_n

[Chirella321]

I really love how you explain things so we can remember them. I've had a hard time remembering cha iro, but now that you said it is the same kanji as "tea" I will remember that! Arigatou! =D

[Chirella321]

I really love how you explain things so we can remember them.  I've had a hard time remembering cha iro, but now that you said it is the same kanji as "tea" I will remember that! Arigatou! =D

[pulapulilormele]

Woooooww.....! Cha iro!! In Romanian, the word for tea is ceai(pron. "chai") !!!

[syiunshi]

forgot orenji to haiiro to mizuiro

[joellaspier]

ik see that you also put japanese characters but what are the characters behind the japanese letter!! is that also japanese or chinese???

[hapaloha]

The Japanese written language has three alphabets, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana is the plain alphabet (letters on the left of the captions) which you can use to spell out kanji if you don't know it, Katakana is the alphabet reserved for foreign words(like camera, computer, etc) but has the same sounds as hiragana, and Kanji is the alphabet that came from China (each character holds its own meaning - Japanese kanji is a more simplified version of the Chinese though).

[chunkyloverrr53]

it's weird that the kanji for blue is actually green in chinese. but cool video, i enjoyed it very much!

[hapaloha]

really? That's so interesting!! I guess blue and green are pretty similar anyways.

[akun75]

Kool, arigato!

[hapaloha]

you're welcome! douitashimashite :)