The Japanese Writing System (part 1): Hiragana

This video briefly explains hiragana, the phonetic alphabet of Japanese, and its uses. I know that I lot of you guys are interested in learning Japanese so I thought I'd give you guys something to start from. I'll be throwing these terms around a lot once I start teaching in Japan so I figured it would be in my best interest to edumacate my audience.

In my next videos I'll discuss the other two writing systems: katakana and kanji.

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• hiragana
• katakana
• kanji
• japanese
• writing
• system
• alphabet
• how
• to
• write
• japan

[shinx12345]

Isn't it cool how if you have a Japanese name then it really truly means something else? (For instance the kanji can mean something else if you catch my drift...)

[brotherannie]

@shinx12345 It IS cool! My first Japanese teacher's name translated to WEST-FIELD-FAST-MAN.

[Standard420247]

We need to party together!!!

[MissJaedeykins]

@clanerp Nah. It's really not.

[clanerp]

..Just wondering, but is sa in the picture at 0:30 written wrong?...

[tolstunka]

thx for ur simple explanation :)

[darktepig1224]

She's pretty and smart! :D

[XxTooHyperxX]

Omg. Thank you for edumacating me :3

[trulifesounds]

You should also mention that 日本 is also Nippon because kanji's can often represent different word particles: thats where it get annyoing

[MiyuuKiwi]

I have a question for you! If I were to visit Japan, will it be more important to concentrate on speaking the language, reading the kana smoothly/fast, knowing the kana, but reading them slow, and knowing a little kanji?

[colombiak]

Ohhhhhh now I understand! Wow she's so good at explaining! She would be an awesome teacher.

Thank you so much for the video!

[mikofujiify]

i'm learning hiragana rite now i remembered some this vid really helps and 2day's my b-day! june 20th!