Learn Kanji in 45 minutes - How to Read and Write Japanese

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Learning kanji can either be the most frustrating work of your life, or it can be a fascinating and fun journey! The key to making kanji an enjoyable experience is to learn the meaning and origin of the kanji radicals that build all kanji characters.
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[@hotepanthony3910]

Learning Japanese be like: "This radical means dragon. And The kanji next to it means shoe. Together, they mean pancake."

[@Mars8765]

This radical means paper. This radical means person. Together, they mean grass.

[@raventv9826]

Im learning chinese in university so for me kanji is pretty free meaning once you take the effort to leanr kanji u learn chinese aswell so it might be confusing but its worth it

[@CSXFilmer]

If you’re strong enough you can use the shoe to squish the dragon into a pancake.

[@mathiasensimon]

Yes because yes

[@CSXFilmer]

frogisamars the person make paper using the grass

[@YNNEB-hz3be]

Hiragana=friend Katakana=ok one Kanji=the bully

[@nikitasfantasies6658]

Oh God this is too accurate

[@jaegerbawmb687]

So true! xd

[@stratis5360]

Haha totally accurate

[@ghadiaoun5534]

@Orion D. Hunter i would have said the same given that katakana symbols are more geometrical and simpler that hiragana. But if you learn hiragana first you will feel that katakana is more diifficult ig and vice vers ca...

[@Rudenbehr]

Ghadi Aoun Question is... why tf would anyone learn katakana first 😂 makes no sense when you think about, but we all eventually learn it so meh

[@D6C]

I am Japanese. (I'm using translation.) Kanji practice is still easier when you learn the radicals. When I was little, I was not good at kanji either, but once I learned the radicals and their meanings, it became easier to study them. Please try your best, even if it's just little by little! Japanese is fun. P.S. Japanese anime and manga are also great.

[@tranquilious]

はい！日本語は楽しいです！ありがとう。

[@D6C]

@@tranquilious そう言ってもらえて嬉しいです！こちらこそありがとう。

[@kikosawa]

アニメと漫画が一番大切ものですよ

[@emsub1199]

ありがとう, アニメやマンガは有用. 本！

[@angiefermin6586]

@@D6C I'm trying to test what i just learned from the video with your comments and I'm failing 😢

[@tflyfoster3018]

10:34 Recap of everything so far Kanji • Kanji is the incorporation of Chinese characters into Japanese writing • They are characters that represent an idea and contain meaning • Radicals are the building blocks of Kanji • Kanji can have multiple readings "On" and "Kun" • The "On" reading mimics the original sound made in Chinese • The "Kun" reading is a revised reading used to integrate the Japanese alphabet • The only way to determine which reading to use is mainly VIA the context • The "On" reading is usually used when multiple Kanji are grouped together in a compound word • The "Kun" reading is usually used when it's a standalone Kanji Radicals • Each Kanji character has at least one of them • Sometimes they can be a Kanji on its own • Several Radicals put together can be another Kanji • When placed together they can be in 4 different positions known as Left, Crown, Right, Foot Common Kanji Radicals & Characters • Person/Human 人 or 休 • Called にんべん written with 2 strokes • This character is commonly found in the left position • Less commonly found in the Crown position "On" Readings are on the left and "Kun" on the right • Alone its readings are ニソ and ひと • Paired with Tree it's キユウ and やす meaning to rest 休 • Paired with Trunk it's タイ and かやだ meaning body 体 • Paired with Word it's シソ meaning Trust 信

[@nevie6008]

Whoever made this language has good imagination, not gonna lie..

[@funatic9912]

Ive never seen a child that looks like 24:02

[@khajitt]

It's because everything is simplified. You need to look at the characters way before traditional Chinese. Ancient Chinese that is

[@funatic9912]

@pxstel_boba• That would look like a child if the child's knees could bend backwards

[@miso_9373]

@pxstel_boba• and you close your eyes to the point you can just see, then start to tear up. Then you see a child...

[@isabellaomega5389]

Kanji originated from china but sure

[@Daniel-zh1si]

Learning Japanese writing is like school: Romaji: Your best friend. Hiragana: Your crush. Katakana: The foreign student. Kanji: A fkn dragon with giant cannons attacking the school.

[@NormalThe7th]

Purrrfect

[@NormalThe7th]

[@myoouii]

Romaji : the ruined everything friend 😂

[@lungkyendinyoto6321]

Kanji: the school itself

[@yuinurahilyon5711]

Lungky Endinyoto The grand Library.

[@NissanSkylineVR30]

For anyone learning Kanji right now or Chinese characters, its best to learn them through memory and making up a story. This video is really teaching you one thing, making a memory or a story behind each Kanji. When they claim Person and Tree is rest, its their way of memorizing the Kanji as rest. What I mean by that is, if that Kanji meant "to lean", you would have just remembered it as a person leaning on a tree. To Lean. Its all imaginative. That's the key take way here.

[@hailhydreigon2700]

Kanji can be difficult at first. But it gets wayyyyy easier as you go on. It's a great skill to learn. :)

[@tobacco118]

No, it doesn't get any easier. In fact, you get confused with the strokes and radical as you learn more characters. It takes many many years to truly master it.

[@L0u8823]

@@tobacco118 Everyone is different, they probably had a different experience.

[@Wyrmixx]

*finally understands all hiragana and katakana and has the courage to learn more* Kanji: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*

[@aethyr9799]

*I'm gonna stop you right there*

[@OtakuOne]

me rn

[@shirayukihime7384]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA......taskete onii_tan

[@gwen3822]

IKR? ;-;

[@gwen3822]

@@kiruazorudexick weird flex but okay

[@petermendez9486]

"Human + Word" Me: "Oh I got it, it's language!" "It's trust!" Me: How the f-

[@muhammadmuizzsuddin7702]

I've just deceived too :D

[@TheVergile]

Heartmouth + Fivemouth = Language. Of course. Obviously.

[@PRINCESS444]

I litterly thought the same thing

[@dhanursharma1752]

It's the representation of a "person giving his word" ie. Trust, is what I believe

[@alfred1925]

You need to make up your own mnemonics using the radicals

[@yasikins6646]

Finally an explanation for reading kanji! I always wondered how it worked. It always baffled me how Japanese people could read a kanji they’ve never or hardly seen and understand it’s meaning. The radical system makes so much sense! Yay no longer in the dark! Excited to learn Kanji now that I know how it works! 😄

[@r0yce]

You still as optimistic as this?? 😂

[@Quach7]

Glyphs are all around us, long before computer icons, Stop sign. Traffic signs. McDonalds Burger King Taco Bell (it's a bell) Pizza Hut Roy Rogers Big Boy Buffalo Wild Wings Chili's Wendy's (that's the picture of Wendy, the founder's daughter) etc . . .

[@L0u8823]

@@r0yceseriously haha

[@thecamillarose9806]

​@@r0yceyeah I know you've given up but we all haven't I find kanji super fun to learn like I'm untangling a puzzle

[@leni4179]

​@@Quach7bro, think about the emoji, these are literally pictograph and we use all the time

[@adr2534]

Me happily coming to learn kanji after finishing hiragana and katakana.... also me regretting the day i promised myself to learn Japanese 🥺 it will take me 1000 lives to learn Kanji! hats off to the people of Japan😭

[@user-cn4nt7td5j]

I'm Japanese. When you learn Kanji, I think the most important thing is imagination. (I'm sorry if I'm unnatural English because I use a translator!) ❌ Person＋Tree＝rest ✔︎ Imagine the scenery of a person stands still beside a large tree in the primitive age. Calm time flows and he/she become sleepy and lie down. =rest

[@reyshakquit]

so pretty much you need to find a way to connect these two words so the third one comes out?

[@zeidelayyan5387]

Arigatou!

[@randomlurker8981]

Jp are like if you took bill gates or zuck and clone them to have an entire country/ civilization... I can see zuck creating japanese to not be understood by foreigners

[@mmael_]

有難う！！！

[@eternallucifer7709]

can you explain how mouth plus legs is equal brother?

[@neko_aple]

12:53 don't fool me. Human legs combined with eyes can only mean one thing: Mike from Monster Inc.

[@anthonyj9299]

facts

[@JecrsBrawlELPRO_YT]

@@anthonyj9299 口

[@yuinurahilyon5711]

Lmao hahahaha 😂🤣

[@jamesramirez0408]

It even looks like him

[@pantaboi8045]

IM BOUTA CRY HELP

[@rayhuakai5415]

I am Japanese. When I was in elementary school, we had homework to write Kanji characters every day. When typing on the keyboard, you may not know which kanji is the correct one to use. But nowadays, if you use voice recognition, it will automatically display the correct kanji. The trick is to speak in sentences. This sentence was also entered using Japanese speech recognition, and was translated using DeepL. 私は日本人です。私が小学生の頃は、毎日漢字を書く宿題がありました。 キーボードで入力するときは、どの漢字を使うのが正解かわからないかもしれません。 でも、今は音声認識を使えば、自動で正しい漢字で表示されます。 こつは、文章で話すことです。 この文章も日本語の音声認識で入力しました。DeepLを使用して、翻訳を行いました。

[@edenbergmanarpiis7848]

Kanji is hard for me to grasp and I'm kinda thinking of giving up sometimes. But I've come this far. I've already learned hiragana and katakana, and I have already bought reference books and study materials. And I still have my passion in learning this language. To anyone who's feeling the same, let's not give up and try and try until we succeed. It might take long before we master some phrases, characters, or words, but atleast we tried, and we're still trying. Ganbatte! ❤️ And thanks for Japanesepod101 for the free and fun lessons! Their videos are so helpful and enjoyable that it helps me maintain my will to study. Arigatou gozaimasu! 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@6soup6time69]

me: * has mastered hiragana and katakana * kanji: you really thought you did something there

[@LannasMissingLink]

How is your studying going?

[@aubreylikespickles7702]

How is your studying so far?

[@thegingenesis6552]

Temporal Paradox they gave up.

[@raeera1]

The G In Genesis same tho

[@6soup6time69]

The G In Genesis oOf I really did )):

[@eatsleepdie1682]

46 symbols (Hiragana) = learn in 1 hour 46 symbols (Katakana) = learn in 1 hour over 2k symbols (Kanji) = learn in 45 minutes

[@babijjones6432]

they don't try to teach us all 2000 words tho...... so ofc it's only 43 minutes

[@youneverwalkalone3584]

@@babijjones6432 I'd rather they tell us all off it🥲 I won't survive in Japan next year if I only mastered Hiragana and Katakana😢

[@mavi2643]

@@youneverwalkalone3584 are you going permanently? If not then it's not much of a deal, as long as you know directions and the basics in talking you'll be good

[@youneverwalkalone3584]

@@mavi2643 Im just going for school. But thank you for the info:)

[@ProPlayer279]

@@youneverwalkalone3584 when/where are you going exactly

[@undine8750]

It doesn't take as long as they suggest. In Japan they learn them all throughout primary and secondary school, but a motivated self-learner usually exceeds the capacity for learning that's required in school by a large margin. It is very possible to crank them all out in 2-4 months if you have enough caffeine.

[@Quach7]

They are in the environment of their language. We call that immersion, like a fish is immersed in water. It is wet all the time.

[@cryptic2121]

Learning 2000 most used kanji in 2 months means to fully memorise 30+ kanji per day. I don’t think I see anyone to do it 😅 4 months is possible maybe! Good luck

[@Nagitos.Boytoy]

It’s two am, I’ve been writing very detailed notes on a lot of your videos. It might take some time but your videos have really encouraged me to keep learning

[@bobsagget7483]

so to learn kanji you have to remember what it means, how to write it, and how it is pronounced...simple enough I shall be fluent in Japanese by 2074

[@nirajshrestha6806]

FiveADay Kanji 1 only means fucking one.. 1 is beginning point as it is used for counting like いち .. It is not used as single in any sentences .. So? 1st is pronounced First which is soooo simple to understand because of common "st".. Tell me in the same way in japanese

[@irsh_official]

U can be fluent in just 6 months

[@TheVergile]

Good thing every kanji has only two ways to read it and 5 possible meanings

[@meow7476]

藁藁.. 同じです

[@meow7476]

漢字は本当にむずかしい

[@lapin9417]

I’d like to wish every person trying to learn kanji including myself the best of luck, I sincerely mean that..

[@sultanalsuwaidi2588]

Wholesome Nagito so what progress are u making?

[@lapin9417]

sultan Alsuwaidi sorry for the late reply!! I was a bit busy. Uhm, I’m not sure I’m getting the hang of kanji.. what about you? How are you doing with your progress?

[@user-vh8ep4qr6b]

*Should I learn Kanji first, I'm confused.*

[@gukkiegukkie]

@@user-vh8ep4qr6b No 1st you can learn hiragana nd then katakana after that you can go with kanji

[@tria0801]

がんばります👍

[@NissanSkylineVR30]

For all new Kanji learners, if you are planning to learn Kanji through using stories, memorize your own stories. The issue that a lot of people don't tell you, like in this video or in books like RTK (remembering the kanji), is that memorizing thousands of different stories for Kanji is also just as ineffective. People claim, "Oh. Memorizing Kanji by itself is difficult and will take a long time." But when you memorize the stories for these Kanjis, you also STILL have to memorize the Kanji. The only difference is that you are memorizing an extra step to MAYBE make it easier for yourself. I think the best situation is mix and match. Some stories for some Kanji you find difficult but the rest should be learnt through meaning and context. We don't teach English speakers to learn words like Run through pictures. IE: We don't tell people. "Okay. The R is like a 2 legs and they are moving and the UN are the curves of a track. Thus running!" Also - in English we memorize thousands and thousands of words created by 26 letters. That means 26 letters have thousands of combinations. Not once we were thought to use stories. A prime of example of why some of these stories don't really work if you listen to other people is: take the character 問 (to ask). The video basically said: the department of mouth is to question or to ask. Why isn't it to smile? To talk? To chew? To etc... This is basically basically its not REAL meaning; its what they decided to make the story as. Just remember, if you do stories, do your own or you'll be confused.

[@Tonystarrk]

👍

[@lizard_girl_]

i’ve been recently trying to learn japanese fluently, and i’m doing pretty well with hiragana and katakana, but kanji had always scared me... until now. this video was super helpful and a great introduction to kanji! thank you very much!! 😅

[@Yomikade]

Me: so 見 is see, because of legs + eye, so 兄 would probably means talk, because legs + mouth, right? Kanji: O L D E R B R O T H E R

[@moe-kirimura]

And talk is "喋". 口 mouth, 世 world, 木 tree.....

[@gabriel_catelli]

The only good reason I could think of to justify this is that maybe in the past it was the older brother's role to support the family and feed them idk lol

[@fumfig3262]

The ancient Chinese origin of 兄 depicts a man looking up and pointing his hand down as though he is giving an order, symbolizing the edlest brother's authority over those younger than him.

[@milkywat6463]

Ur profile picture is satou-chan

[@njr-hp9qr]

@@gabriel_catelli pretty good honestly

[@richardcolwell6813]

“Take a look at these kanji characters. Can you guess what they mean?” Nope. Not at all. Not even a little bit.

[@gabrielaocampo5927]

Same :v even whit the radical's meaning

[@afelix]

I'll just stick to emoji

[@martinet1985]

@@afelix LOL :D

[@razziechkn]

I know what nani is lol 何　and the numbers

[@charevandenheever4460]

I guessed lumberjack axe and read lol

[@kimre342]

I learned Chinese characters since my schooling in kindergarten. However, Kanji is still one of the most challenging parts of the Japanese language. The writing is easy. The meaning of the words is mostly identical or similar, although approximately 30% of the vocabulary is uniquely used in the Japanese language and unintelligible in Chinese. The pronunciation, however, is often different from those in any Sinitic language such that we need to memorize them one by one. To be able to read Kanji words, we still need to memorize the pronunciation of more than a thousand commonly used words. Only a very small portion of the Kanji words have similar pronunciation to some Sinitic languages, usually the regional languages in South China which share common origins with Kanji from Middle Chinese. The pronunciation of modern Mandarin Chinese is almost completely different.

[@MrBaluboo]

alright, any tips on how to make the memorizing part any easier? how do kindergarten kids approach this mammoth task? thanks for tips, any really😅

[@harshitahahaha]

this is literally the best kanji lesson ever on youtube. it covers exactly all that is needed to be known.. from the meaning, different uses, to strokes and pronunciation. it's so hard to learn otherwise. Thank you so much. This was really helpful and i've been able to remember kanjis without much effort now. please make more of these

[@solidfox2]

Me 3 minutes into the video: *internal screaming* Me 15 minutes into the video: *external screaming*

[@zissler1]

I wonder how your work feels about that

[@theiriscen]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ghostpeppa1012]

Me: "Learns hiragana and katakana in 1 week and proceeds to learn kanji with confidence." Video: "Person + tree = rest" Me: "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"

[@alexnime3303]

you could think of it as someone resting under the shade of a tree

[@luxvir]

@@alexnime3303 they were probably talking about the way that you have to figure out every explanation before you can understand it (context obviously helps) but that kanji is just a basic example, did you see "melancholy" (OH MAH GAH)

[@Ari-uo9kk]

Same feels!!!!

[@Sol-cx8dw]

@Introverted J Maybe, if human speaks to you, they probably trust you (to some extent at least)

[@user-li3pn8nx3u]

Introverted J It means you take one person’s word by heart. But again, you can’t translate word for word for two entirely different cultures. Better remember it just as “信”.

[@richardpena7153]

This was so helpful. I just started learning Japanese, and am just getting a grasp on Hiragana and Katakana. Kanji had me completely confused. This helped me tremendously, because now I have a basis to learn Kanji.

[@cx3558]

This was incredibly useful. Thank you so so much! Can't wait to see if there's more to this Kanji series. 🤩

[@denizkendirci]

what i learnt from this lesson: one cannot simply guess the meaning of a kanji just by trying to make a connection between the meanings of its radicals.

[@smokeymanalotoo]

true. memorization the kanji as an individual word is the only way

[@user-wt5if6rx8m]

@@smokeymanalotoo i think it's much better to learn kanji through vocabulary and context, most people are not linguists, it certainly helps guessing new words if you know a bit about how japanese words are generally conceived but that's it, but i guess even that becomes intuitive the more our brains get used to discovering the patterns

[@lNovalandl]

to be honest, even if the stories are far fetched they help, the person + tree meaning ti rest feels weird but everytime i see these now i instantly remember, "uh a person next to a tree?" and that feeling of weirdness reminds me of the meaning even tho the actual story behind it might not make sense, i know that ones a simple exemple but it still helps a lot to know radicals, also it's how most dictionaries are organized so it's useful for searching kanji when you can recognize part of it

[@johnbaptist7082]

@@lNovalandl In the old days people at the fields used to rest under trees at noon. Thatvwaybthey were protected by the sun.

[@tldoesntlikebread]

Sometimes if I can't understand the story between then radicals then I just make my own way to remember like for otouto (younger brother) which is 弟 my mindset was "this kanji has horns because younger brothers must be little devils" and that's how I remember it.

[@MasterQuestMaster]

The: "Can you guess the meaning of the word? It's the human radical plus the tree radical" Me: tree... person? They: "Of course it means 'to rest'! What about human and root?" Me: Well the person is now leaning closer to the ground (near the root of the tree) , so maybe sleep? The: "It's referring to the human body! Okay, then how about human and word?" Me: Oh, that's gotta be talking! They: "It means trust! Can you see how easily we can guess the meaning?" Me: Not really.

[@rob.ale90]

You should really be on 9gag:))

[@user-qt9cb2wu1y]

MasterQuestMaster lol i agree

[@sonny01red]

I was thinking reading for the last one

[@dudinwillriot4669]

You're totally right, it's hard cause the word meant essentially but it's confusing . Person+tree=rest Person+root=body On and kun thing is the bonus

[@tinymusicalfan3187]

MasterQuestMaster lmao I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂

[@Sakura_Kun367]

I am not going to lie at all i absolutely learnt a lot from this one single video! Thank You so so much i really appreciate how you made this video and explanations too! ❤

[@elizabethflitcroft7520]

I love this video!! I would love more videos like this this was super helpful as I'm in the beginning stages of learning Japanese

[@jamesramirez0408]

No one: Japanese: *ten plus mouth equals old*

[@anthonyk.1408]

You can imagine a story that justifies it, like a mouth which has only 10 teeth left in it is an old person's mouth.

[@sergelucca635]

@@anthonyk.1408 maybe. But the fact that it is so open for interpretation means it could mean anything too. I think if there is a way to identify what strokes to write for a particular something would be much more better than adding two different radicals that could mean anything due to its open interpretation.

[@literallyabsolutelyanythin9692]

EVERY SINGLE COMMENT IS MAKING ME LMFAO

[@arnold3768]

That's probably more like what chinese think... XD

[@superj1e2z6]

Ten + mouth The mouth in which jokes come from Ten jokes gets old Hence the meaning is old

[@gp1131]

We learn kanji in elementary school for 6 years with a sponge brain, still sometimes we search the characters that we don't know or forget how to write or read. There is even a quiz show that guesses how to read kanji. I want to say to all you guys who study japanese just keep it up, but I think it's best to learn step by step while having fun. I want to talk to you guys in Japanese someday! Greetings from Japan!!

[@immersivevr3605]

you just cheered me up ! , I am absolute beginner so one question is this approach good - first learning Hiragana and Katakana , Second - all radicals , Last - Kanji (first 2000 or so)

[@beshooketh9333]

ありがとうございます!

[@gp1131]

@@immersivevr3605 I'm not even a japanese teacher, but there seems to be no problem! Keeping the focus on writing kanji and you can handle it😉

[@jwatson908]

(I'm learning Japanese and know hiragana, plus katakana, but I'm unaware of how to get my English keyboard to type either. So, I'll have to type Japanese in English lettering. I'm sorry.) Arigato gozaimasu! Hatsumode, Jada to mashimasu. Yoroshiku onigaishimasu! (This may be spelled incorrectly, if it is, I'm sorry.)

[@emflamb6244]

And now i see why asians are smart....

[@curtpiazza1688]

Love the lesson and the clear presentation!

[@pretykhan926]

It was really helpful ❤ and I'm looking forward to watching more kanji series videos. I love your channel a lot. You guys really helped me to learn Japanese in a very easy way. May Allah help you guys 😘

[@Mit_Mitsukii]

Me:alright I learned hiragana and katakana time for kanji Kanji: の I haven’t checked back in a while and holy- was it that funny?!

[@Mit_Mitsukii]

• L i l i a n n e • I meant for ppl to pronounce it in English 😂

[@justeeny9368]

@@momminia3093 ばかです

[@Nsix4]

I don't know how I feel, understanding everything in this thread. I lost my crap when I read "Kanji: の" lol

[@Poppy-ek6lc]

hahahahaha same tho

[@az.muteki]

No

[@GatoEpico]

there are japanese people of 40years+ living there that still dont know all the kanjis. Me trying to learn this quickly

[@PmpknHead]

Mostly cause there is like 50000 of them when you only need less than 5000

[@eshaalemad9570]

指アΣカ .... oh...

[@JoseSantos-el8nj]

Don't think that way, focus on learning the 2136 (I don't know the exact number) that are mostly used in newspapers and the daily life in japan. I won't learn for any means all the kanji out there lol

[@apex6625]

@@JoseSantos-el8nj Google says on Average you only need to learn around 2k to be considered fluent

[@shyanide]

@@apex6625 "only"

[@pr0nar3ff]

I love this channel. I can learn Japanese for free and they have some fun videos. Thank you so much!

[@timothyavery1104]

In the movement radical, I noticed how much it looked like a treadmill which can also relate to movement which helps me, so ありがと

[@DangAlfa]

Congratulations on learning hiragana and katakana, It must've been tough and you did a great job. Now prepare for everlasting pain.

[@whyharumentalarts]

Fr tho- T.T

[@YeahRight5]

How sweet. Thanks for the motivation.

[@DangAlfa]

@@YeahRight5 you're welcome 😊

[@Re.Alllll]

I'm going in boys

[@shreyam258]

I just started hiragana...

[@user-cv2vo5wn9m]

me : a chinese kanji : hi me : I DO NOT FEAR YOU.

[@bryanvalando4790]

i feel you.

[@carricto]

It’s only the reading that’s hard

[@sunflowernomori]

@@szecr omg its duo

[@The_PersianAudioBook]

i can say your school was harder than the other countries

[@TheReal_KitCat]

I fear no man But that thing... It can't scare me

[@AnywhereButHome_PinoyAko]

Imagination of all sorts played a big part (if not all) in the creation of each Chinese character. Just like how the constellations were given names. Thank you for this tutorial!

[@Mikael_Puusaari]

thank you for this One way to understand Kanji seems to be to deduct the concept of concepts put together rather than just knowing the words for them, at least at a first glance :)

[@fachriecaf]

The 4 way of kanji: 1). As a stand alone. Simply as is with 1 kanji character with 1 meaning. I.e: 女(onna) = women 2). Write it along hiragana but still 1 meaning. Here we use them together with hiragana scripts which usually used similarly as a conjunction. I.e: 女の子(onna no ko) = girl, consist of kanji 'women'(女, onna), hiragana の that mostly represented as 'ownership', and kanji child (子, ko) 3). As a radicals and combine it with other radicals to create 1 kanji character. I.e: 好(kou) = fondness, consist of 2 kanji as radicals, woman(女) and child(子), but for this one isn't to be used as is, like the 2nd ways, its used in hiragana to give a 'meaning' in its words like 好き(suki, means like) or 好く(suku, means 'to like'). Not to be mistaken with 透く(suku, means 'be transparent') which spelled the same but uses different kanji hence different meaning. You can also uses more radicals, i.e. 姦(kan) = noisy, with 3 kanji characters of women(女) as radicals 4). Combine it with other kanji but not as radical. I.e: 王女(oujo) = princess, consist of 2 kanji, king(王, ou) and women(女, onna). This time not as radical which to create 1 character, but as 2 character but with 1 meaning. And just like radicals, it can also uses more characters but still create one meaning

[@dardanleci2721]

this comment is underrated. thanks for the insight 😊

[@archise3191]

3 women kanji = noisy The Chinese knows what's up

[@mangolie21]

Thank, this was very useful!

[@Sky4Jus]

Yeah, while reading, I *surely* will have time to think about something like that

[@eduardoledesma5568]

If (King+Woman) means Princess how do you write Queen?

[@iishadowii7477]

Me: Alright so "人" means person, I feel like I can learn Kanji *MELANCHOLY:* I'm about to end this mans whole career

[@ando1135]

hah i recognized that kanji as soon as i saw it because for some reason, years ago, i looked up the character for depression and it was that kanji...and it stuck with me, because of how unique it was. dont ask me to write it though lol, it has so many strokes.

[@iceg6621]

iiShadowii intredasting

[@MANOFGOD9000]

How did you type a kanji character? Been trying to find out how for a minute.

[@ando1135]

MANOFGOD9000 何?

[@ando1135]

MANOFGOD9000 if on computer you need to download a language pack. If on the phone, you can turn on the Japanese keyboard

[@bumbleb6168]

Me: tries to learn japanese My brain: の

[@amirah3791]

this was super helpful! for future reference, it really helps to put how to write it before the other info, since some students copy and it helps writing practice to have correct form from the start!

[@bluebotlivingston6016]

I'm not scared, I've already learned the whole Pokédex. My body is ready

[@Sweet_Scorpia]

Jonathan Meddis - yeah if i remember the names of all those 800'dang pokemon characters, then i should be able to remember at least 1,000 kanji right? XD

[@Uelibertiga]

Then just imagine you learned the whole pokedex and then you find out about the alola one where all the pokemon have different names. It´s just that easy

[@hnng7335]

Uelibertiga That’s still a lot of learning o-o

[@fgvcosmic6752]

800 pokemon vs 3000 very similair looking vague characters....

[@cybershock-025]

Jonathan Meddis its actually more than 53000 kanji... but you only need about 3000 to be able to read a newspaper ;)

[@lunamyles2883]

I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I said I was gonna learn Japanese 😳

[@sneakerwallet3739]

Learning a new language is never easy

[@The_PersianAudioBook]

well i just finished hiragana and katakana but Kanji is some hell monster

[@natsumi_mayaro5471]

@@The_PersianAudioBook ikr Lol u named urself "no"

[@The_PersianAudioBook]

@@natsumi_mayaro5471 😁

[@efloof9314]

Im up for the challenge

[@theburgercam]

Keep the videos coming very helpful and I'm in love with Risa

[@BrettOPediaTV]

It seems like artists created this language, it’s so cool! I’m a visual learner, and I love this so much

[@tenletters5889]

31:58 日 is a pictogram? Did some Chinese dude think that the sun was actually a glowing Ikea shelf?

[@nevie6008]

I agree..

[@sharpeon]

Underrated comment

[@aprilsnow9543]

this made me laugh so hard that my neighbor probably heard me.

[@aureliusplaysathing]

I remember 日 by thinking about seeing the sun through a window.

[@radhikagupta916]

LOL i cant with these comments

[@mocaacoffee8338]

you guys are doing this for anime but i'm doing this because i accidentally changed my laptop's language to japanese and i can't turn it back edit: jesus christ calm down its a fucking joke

[@nicolamigone8849]

Lmao

[@classicsoda]

I hope you succeed in your quest

[@AlbertoRamirez-cw6dy]

F

[@midnightkpop8076]

USe goOgLe- seArCh hOw tO chNage tHe lanGuagE bAck

[@Artist_of_Imagination]

@@midnightkpop8076 ...

[@Ladyofthedreams_]

I almost learn all the kanji from this vid it means a lot to me and it helped me too it is a good lesson and these two r the good teachers thnx for letting us know it carefully 😍😍😍it really helped and i am glad hope i learn japanese fastly!!😘😘

[@anniemadden3005]

This was brilliant!!!! Straightforward, clear and sequential!!! Thank you!

[@normans.58]

"This radical means person, and this radical means tree. Can you guess what this Kanji means?" Me, with confidence: *Treeman* I know, I'm not very bright.

[@daev3000]

I don't think the problem here lies with you...

[@earth527]

Treeman is a name of a Chinese KZbin channel.

[@user-vh8ep4qr6b]

i thought that as well comrad

[@maxipower16]

groot

[@aebiia]

@@earth527 Im subscribed to it lol

[@projectmayhem6898]

You are tearing me apart, Risa!

[@mueezadam8438]

Project Mayhem oh hi mark

[@projectmayhem6898]

Let's go eat, huh?

[@hancake44]

@@mueezadam8438 so anyway hows your sex life?

[@Mansplainer452]

Lmfao😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂genius dude

[@mariaconcepcionguanzon3955]

HA!

[@JCM._effects]

0:32 how to know about kanji? 0:46 what is kanji? 2:21 how to learn kanji? 3:13 radicals 3:15 what are radicals? 4:34 the person radical 4:08 lesson recap 4:45 first radical 5:24 person radical meaning 7:08common positions 10:15 lesson review 10:34 human legs radical 13:04 common position

[@L0u8823]

I learned Hiragana and just got done with Katakana from this channel, and now it’s teaching me Kanji. THANK YOU

[@isaiahscobel]

Kanji are like ancient emojis if that makes it any easier A good tip is that there is no one certain reading （Example: Soda, Pop, Coke, Cola) and then u just use it as the 🥤Emoji

[@maggotsfeast3897]

i cant see the emoji but yea tanks

[@surferriness]

@@maggotsfeast3897 it' s Like a Soda emoji

[@justeeny9368]

as weird as it sounds this actually really helps

[@punkst6r223]

That helps! Thanks Isaiah!

[@justanormalsamurai8411]

Isaiah Scobel thanks so much!

[@daviderinetorres3222]

"Me finally learns katakana and hiragana" Kanji: "plays Giorno's theme"

[@jaji6780]

Dun dun du nun dun dun dun dun dun......

[@jojosuke2471]

LMAO relatable-

[@chestnut_bread8642]

Do I hear boss music 🤔

[@angelamariereyes2142]

Srsly hahahahha

[@cuddlesandcryptids9927]

Im pretty good at katakana and hiragana but kanji scares me

[@dathyr1]

Being a beginner in Japanese language and starting to learn Hiragana at this time, my first observation of Kanji and the radicals from this video are not very obvious to me far as the end meaning of the complete Kanji Character. I feel I would still have to memorize each Kanji Character. Lets be real now!! I would have to have a very very imaginative mind to come up with the final meaning of the Kanji Character from its individual Radicals. Most I wouldn't even come close to guessing in a hundred years from the individual Radicals. Even the Radicals are not obvious what they are supposed to represent without you telling us. It is great to know the origin of Kanji and the basics of them. I still need to learn Hiragana and Katakana first before I tackle learning Kanji. I bet there are many many people still trying to learn Kanji if there are more than 1500 of them.

[@barisbasar3909]

Risa is such a legend. Thanks for all of your content

[@W4RH3AD]

13:10 "Just remember where your legs are on your body and you won't forget it!" "Where are your legs?" "On the bottom!" LMAO. That enthusiasm melted my heart and made me laugh out loud.

[@NormalThe7th]

No mine are at the top

[@njr-hp9qr]

*what if you don't have legs?*

[@SystemYTP]

“We highly recommend keeping ready a phone, in case learning the Kanji strokes gives you a stroke.”

[@justanormalsamurai8411]

SystemYTP noice

[@yuinurahilyon5711]

Hahahaha 😂

[@fatimahmakgatho8968]

I'm not a fan of kanji but I've got to get this revision done. Arigatō gozaimasu for the simplified lessons and neat format Matane! ✌🏾

[@Mr.Dragon-Zero]

hey are you olso leaning japanese?..

[@eduardomonteiro6863]

Great lesson! ありがとう❤️

[@risayamanaka3252]

now that I know how to write "human legs" I will write it on an empty box and ship it to Tokyo and freak people out.

[@abdullakc]

Risa Yamanaka lol

[@TheElmorenous]

Risa Yamanaka xD

[@zlz95]

It just like you write the English word "legs" on an empty box and no one will freak out but only confused

[@abdullakc]

TheElmorenous ur Japanese ?

[@jo_darel]

Risa Yamanaka marry me

[@xxjust_txx9835]

The moment you finish hiragana and katakana. Oh that wasn’t that bad! Kanji: *i guess you’ve wondered where I’ve been*

[@jenjen_oreo]

Me: *confused screaming*

[@akshaykaushal3325]

Extremely helpful video ❤️❤️ thanks a lot. I want to learn more kanji please make a second videoabout kanji

[@nguyentranthaonguyen2038]

This is what I'm looking for. Thank you ❤

[@dimithetree]

I started learning Japanese almost a year ago... and really, the farther you come, the easier it gets. You start noticing patterns in Kanji, which makes it easier to remember them. My tip for new learners would be: write the characters down, and multiple times. I only started doing that recently - it really helps!

[@gapedandamazed6988]

Amazing advice! It's great to see someone successful in Japanese and spewing out some advice. I'm sure that everyone would very much appreciate some reading advice as well please 🤎

[@cloecourcelles]

nice pfp

[@soywho9837]

thats what i had to do for hiragana, and im starting to read and write it and remember them much better

[@naviimandiv8407]

Further

[@purplepandas6987]

Thank you it really helped ^_^

[@TheProverbialHater]

Hiragana mastered 3 days _"Anime Here I come!"_ Katakana Mastered 1 week _"Oh, Anime you're so gonna get rekt..."_ Kanji... _"Belay my last... I'm gonna be here for a while."_

[@ness3787]

Ok can you read this 大和さん

[@ness3787]

But I’m still 12 I learn japanese and mandarin 日本語 と マンダリン

[@emmyemmyemmyemmyemmyemmyemmy]

Czenrtos Lagszero It doesn’t matter if you learned them in 2 hours. You can forget them easily if you don’t spend time to learn a couple characters at a time, Which I’m sure is why it took him 3 days for Hiragana.

[@emmyemmyemmyemmyemmyemmyemmy]

Czenrtos Lagszero That's great then, It shows that you have a good memory and are extremely dedicated.

[@jg2283]

Lol i know that feel bro. I learned hiragana in only a day or 2 while katakana took me about 8 or 9 days. But fucking kanji?? LOL

[@mohannadrababah757]

that was a great beginning for me in kanji >> thank you so much 💙💙💙

[@nirmanibhashi2757]

I am stuck in the kanji.your kanji video help to me come out.thank sooo much.

[@g3b_rad755]

"Learning kanji is gonna be ezzz" *Sees the kanji character for melancholy* (Õ_Ó)

[@sloth4235]

G3 Bo_man i looked it up and holy sh*t that's a lot. artwork tho for sure

[@soulextracter]

That's when melancholy ensues! x'D

[@fvn55yearsago57]

G3 Bo_man I mastered the word for melancholy, it's actually really easy if you just know and identify the radicals.

[@idekenterprises9734]

憂鬱

[@olli35pgxpg5naf9]

It's easier than it looks

[@maximeoutteryck1968]

I will tell my brother he's a mouth on legs, I'm sure he will appreciate it.

[@buggy-boy]

💀

[@iamtripp]

LOL

[@spacegaming1284]

I’m thai and my english skill is B2 but my Japanese skill is just beginner. This video make me know more kanji and make me practice 2 languages at same time! ありがとうございます。😊

[@rajeshkumarsingh2900]

Excellent way of teaching, very useful for new leaner, thanks a lot.

[@shslhopester7349]

"where are your legs?" me: *[sweats nervously]* uhhhhhhhhhhh

[@IkKorp]

i DoNt fEel sO GoOd

[@dragonotakukip]

That one Vietnam veteran who stepped on a landmine.... *flashbacks in progress*

[@shslhopester7349]

@@dragonotakukip h-

[@emjayfloyd7550]

*pewdiepie sweating in the background*

[@zaksansing9443]

Japanese: yeah let’s use kanji in our language Me: I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THE JAPANESE

[@yassou2050]

JoJo fans are everywhere, but same

[@jiyaprasoon942]

Is that a jojo reference ?!?

[@enzomesquita5537]

User pfp checks out

[@HenriqueErzinger]

should be the Chinese, tho

[@adityathakoor4922]

Honestly now i understand why they were bombed... Twice!

[@SenseiMaharaj]

Japanesepod101 is really a great tool for aspirants!! 😊 We are all fortunate to have it on KZbin....

[@nehareren8008]

Probably the best explanations, thank you 🙏🙏🙏😊

[@bankai416]

Learning hiragana is like being able to read a text out loud but not understanding the meaning of it, while practicing Kanji is like being able to understand a written text but not being able to read it out loud most of the time xD

[@lgaz4614]

AHAHA!! EXACTLY

[@scarlyt1017]

You worded it exactly the way I wanted to say 😂👏

[@gapedandamazed6988]

That IS the case. But if you look at it from this angle it will help you out. So it's like you know English letters and maybe can spell Spanish words. You don't know them but you know the letters. At that point you need to learn what the word is. That's pretty much hiragana and katakana when you read them don't you agree?

[@Pelipear]

Makes sense

[@Kiev-en-3-jours]

I swear to the Gods, this man speaks the truth. Peace and prosperity to him and glory to Ukrainian fighters.

[@mahja]

One advice from Native Japanese: Do not think about radicals, do not try to "analyze" kanjis with radicals. DO NOT THINK. MEMORIZE.

[@kanecanedy623]

I can see why you’re telling to memorize instead. I mean a person radical and a word radical becomes trust? How dafu- and person radical and tree radical becomes to rest? Bruv. But at the same time it seems like this is also a way to get an idea of what the kanji means

[@carmcam1]

just like how in english we read, tough, though, through, differently without thinking much about it. There are kanji i could easily read if it is part of a word with hiragana, but i need to think longer if i see them as a single kanji.

[@mahja]

@@kanecanedy623 To non-native Japanese, for learning Kanji analyzing radicals might work good sometimes, but it's not always perfect because as some people say there are many exceptions. So trying to memorize a character as the whole, one part may increase your Kanji stocks faster. Japanese people learn Kanjis by just MEMORIZING them from 1st grade 6 years old. And we have never analyzed their structures.

[@mahja]

@@carmcam1 In Japan we have a proverb "If you want to make a short cut, you just go the ordinary way" In this case I believe the ordinary way is memorizing haha.

[@kanecanedy623]

@@mahja is there any other benefits analyzing radicals apart from what i said?

[@bobth3026]

That is absolutely helpful thank you

[@user-xz7eg8jl8m]

そうなんだよなー 日本人でも漢字が難し過ぎて知らないものもたくさんあるし でもその分多彩な表現ができるから日本語は面白い言語だと思うよ

[@monsterpoof1378]

well i read it but i gave me no information, basicly i can just pronounce that but cant understand anything XD.... thats sad :(

[@Dragoonking17]

Video: "The kanji for eye with the legs beneath means to see." Me: "Okay..." ... Video: "The kanji for mouth with the legs beneath means..." Me: "Speak! It has to be speak." Video: "older brother." Me: "WHAT?!"

[@iosefamr8289]

Dragoonking17 I genuinely thought it was eat

[@trecou]

It's because older brothers tend to run their mouth

[@Seblak]

I thought: The "beggining of the born childs that gives Support" like an older brother. Tho it's so farferched that it doesn't help for interpretating other kanjis

[@setsu-chon]

Well, the older brother always says something and walks somewhere XD

[@tldoesntlikebread]

Yeah to speak is 話

[@kohiholic4825]

I bawled my eyes out when i saw a kanji composed of 29 strokes

[@munirareduan7925]

Damn

[@user-xn4rc6ds6d]

Bruh there's even more than that. It was 80+ strokes i guess?

[@BlindFuryPR]

@@user-xn4rc6ds6d The kanji with the highest number of strokes is the "taito" kanji which symbolises a dragon in flight. It has 84 strokes.

[@christoria]

@@user-xn4rc6ds6d YOUR NAME

[@damienvanwert7998]

I had a stroke

[@Hachefer]

Very interestindg and very useful. Thank you

[@Ladyofthedreams_]

I already learned till here 26:21 but i still have a lot more to gooooooo anyways i have also already learned kana's now i am learning kanji all thnx to u it's easy to understand the way u teach us thanks alot!!!😘❤

[@laikeia1318]

Mouth+ legs= older brother Bro what

[@user-ds7ji7mh4z]

My older brother has a foot fetish... BOOM!

[@catkitten0]

I laughed way too hard on these comments 🤣, I havent started this vid yet and I'm scared.

[@qaswara9755]

They didn't even explain that one, so either it's so obvious that I'm dumb for not getting it or they themselves have no idea how that can mean older brother

[@stephensharma5275]

The fool that i was guessing it could mean mouth legs

[@qaswara9755]

@@stephensharma5275 Still more logical than older brother

[@MANOFGOD9000]

Here's something that may help others learn Kanji: "You must unlearn what you have learned" -Yoda

[@alestane2]

Only problem is when you do between each lesson.

[@Username-qu1jt]

Unlearn what you have learned, you must

[@Ikunad-Akab_Yu]

The problem is when you unlearn what you learned earlier and you didn't learn anything 私わ馬鹿です。😭

[@marshallrad8871]

This was super helpful, thank you