How Japanese People Type in Japanese

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[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

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[@walterclementsjr.5947]

did you just reply to your 3 year-old video?

[@scorchday8119]

First to like this comment 👍

[@user-iz7kf8jx5h]

Nice timing

[@monadolifesaver5613]

I remember finding this video years ago.

[@jeffreyrusselljr7713]

I'm getting pretty good at speaking Japonese, but reading and writing are a different story. I'm having great difficulty memorizing kanji any advice?

[@katomiccomics202]

When I was like 11 years old I thought Japanese people had a keyboard with thousands of characters on it.

[@wolfmarine5955]

I think we all did😬

[@LeoMkII]

that one chapter from the Simpson has to do with it

[@bof3ryu]

There's a keyboard like that. in this video he's just showing how he types Japanese using US keyboard

[@sneakysnens6720]

Before the Video i still thought it

[@unknownlittlelady]

I still do, I just refuse to believe that they type with an ENGLISH keyboard.

[@instantnoob]

Japanese person: *makes a typo* "I have decided that I want to die"

[@sk8_bort]

*seppuku intensifies*

[@UtkuErenBodur]

let's get this to 666

[@eyon7630]

@@sk8_bort sudoku*

[@guilden4170]

@@eyon7630 ...sudoku?

[@IMCYT]

*Proceeds to Seppuku*

[@ClemensAlive]

This is why Japanese work so long hours...

[@marshals.]

I was here at 11 likes and 1 comment

[@takitachibana1704]

I was here at 44 likes and 2 comments

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

：０

[@Livius_42]

草

[@user-ys6fi1jf6n]

笑った笑

[@Christobanistan]

OMG I've never been so thankful to have a Latin alphabet.

[@megaxind16]

Me too, english is not a my native, but mine is Latin Alphabet same as english, so it won't be that hard for me to typing

[@sgirix65]

@@megaxind16 same, every keyboard in my country uses US keymap even though English is not even an official language in my country lol

[@megaxind16]

@@sgirix65 are Southeast Asian?

[@sgirix65]

@@megaxind16 yes i'm southeast asian

[@megaxind16]

@@sgirix65 indo?

[@mojoneko8303]

With three different forms of writing I thought a Japanese keyboard would look like an old church organ with 3 rows of keys and 6 foot pedals to operate it...

[@mal35m]

@Mojo Neko I thought the same thing.

[@dishant8126]

Lmao

[@Ythiro]

I don't get why katakana even exists, at that point why didn't they apply the western alphabet into their language? creating a new set of characters just for foreign language that butchers the foreign language anyway? miruku = milk... it's english i might get it but if it's italian or spanish?

[@dark_knight109]

​@@Ythiro Katakana isn't *just* for foreign language. It's also used for: -Onomatopoeias and "atmosphere" words -Situations where legibility is important (many road markings are in katakana, because kanji and hiragana would be too difficult to make out, especially at speed). -Attracting attention attention (katakana is common in ads and some business names, as it tends to draw the eye) -Denoting "unusual" speech (in written works, people with unusual speaking patterns - like robots or very young children - sometimes have their speech spelled out in katakana to emphasize the "non-smooth" nature of their speech; the English equivalent would be SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS). It does seem superfluous at first but, honestly, once you get used to it it's actually pretty useful.

[@zachariasprice3762]

@@theramendutchman a playing card is called 'carta' in Portuguese. A letter (like from a person to another) is also 'carta'. A credit card or a postal card is called 'cartão' (cartão de crédito and cartão postal, respectively).

[@pondererofpointlessdreams5029]

English typers - 50 words per minute Japanese typers - 3 words per hour

[@Mr.Nichan]

I was just recently in a comment thread where people were arguing with walls of Chinese text. Now I'm wondering how long it took them to type those. (It might be faster than Japanese though.)

[@kuma-kun9777]

@@Mr.Nichan honestly as a chinese. It is faster typing chinese than typing in Japanese because as the video mentioned, japanese has like 3 forms and the same word can have alot of different meanings. While Chinese characters usually have only a couple to no different meanings for each word and it only has one form, thus typing in chinese is way faster than in japanese. But all in all, it really depends on how fast the person is typing -.-

[@AAce_e]

3 letters per hour*

[@Mr.Nichan]

@@AAce_e Well, 3 characters per hour.

[@user-dm3iz7yu1i]

Actually it’s not really hard as he says, because typing a long word always will be shorter in japanese than english, plus we use a lot of little expressions you probably know like ドキドキ (dokidoki) and theses are extremely fast to type.

[@user-rg9vk8gp9h]

When i first learn japanese : "hiragana and katakana are actually pretty easy, i think i will master japanese writing in a month" Kanji : "の"

[@zenitsu6379]

oh god this will soon be a warning for me-

[@user-rg9vk8gp9h]

@@zenitsu6379 ganbatte lol 😆✊

[@jonnydavis3857]

All you have to remember is katakana and hiragana tho.you don’t need to memorize so many kanjis

[@user-rg9vk8gp9h]

@@jonnydavis3857 thankyou, you made me feel better by this 🙌

[@KairoPires]

Yametekudastop with this めめ >:(

[@taesnuwhat]

Fun fact: At 1:27 It says “Cute girl falls in love, confesses, gets rejected, gives up” Wtf-

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

rip

[@toucanxi178]

I dont think that's very fun

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

Now that you pointed it out, I can see "kawaii onnanoko", but can't read the rest.

[@oliviarts8778]

i feal personally atacked

[@taesnuwhat]

@@gabeowser9881 akirameru

[@RussianSpyNikolai]

"I have a keyboard i have an apple" Me: *don't you dare*

[@TFOCyborg]

Uh! Apple Keyboard!

[@linustechtips4833]

I don’t get it

[@TFOCyborg]

@@linustechtips4833 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaWZc4iGq6plqa8 Thank me later

[@linustechtips4833]

TFO Cyborg oh! Haha thanks lad

[@emilioteran7867]

jeeezz that really was a ride back... i'll admit i immediately went to watch it

[@glennbantayan1376]

them: so, is Japanese easy? me: *の*

[@Diego_A_Lozada]

I think I'll stick to learning how to speak/understand it for now. Google translate does a good job texting.

[@leilachu]

はい

[@user-qk1hf8cx4c]

ノ

[@user-qk1hf8cx4c]

ChamiiKun omg she looks so cute in that picture 😂😂 she’s my best girl I cried at the end of goodbye despair

[@ange8295]

いいえ、ばか。 That’s what you should say to them （＾ν＾）

[@Tsukaiyo]

As valuable as preserving language is, I think Korea knew what it was doing when it said "enough of this pictogram nonsense" and invented the world's most logical phonetic writing system

[@prezentoappr1171]

more homophones good for you maybe if its danish vowels with some big consonant inventory would yield ithkuil, tho as much as people try to meme ithkuil looks too much, it prolly degrade/innovate fast enough to be basic if it ever is spoken natively thx xiomanyc also the piraha thing is great too.

[@283leis]

i mean the korean writing system was literally designed to be as easy as possible

[@gnuwaves743]

I came here thinking, "typing in Japanese can't be this hard. I'm going to find how actual Japanese do it". Then I learn I've been doing it the "normal" way this whole time. What a pain.

[@oiseau_libre]

jajaja (laughing in Spanish)

[@Sad_cup_of_tea_]

Me: * doesn't even speak or understand Japanese * Also me: * watches a video on how to type in Japanese*

[@mkdelta188]

TASE mood

[@FreePalestine2024__0]

Same

[@F_sniprs]

Me too

[@anotherhumanbeing9171]

Same here

[@belivr475]

when i saw how they type in anime i was a bit interested bcs it looked unusual. then when i saw this vid i thought "hmmmm interesting maybe after this vid ill understand everything". well, no bcs idk japanese at all. so, yeah. the same situation as u guys

[@chronic5487]

how to type in japanese step 1 : open google translate

[@montoya6064]

Yes but no

[@xVxStriderxVx]

Seems legit.

[@imgay7317]

Thats what i do

[@alinastanescu4430]

まあはい、しかし実際にははい (Well yes, but actually yes)

[@alinastanescu4430]

@@imgay7317 同じ(same)

[@courtneyn.m.1687]

I was literally just thinking, "I wonder how Japanese people type in Kanji". I decided that I'd google it later, but never did. Then this video popped up on my suggested page. Magic!

[@wwoods66]

Google knows where you live. Also what you think, what you want, etc.

[@haraldschurr1035]

Google is prone to this kind of magic. That happens to me quite often.

[@Akkhinus]

Google knows you better than you know yourself.

[@samizayed1126]

People joke about this, but it's actually true that Google does listen to you na dtry to pick out certain words or phrases to tailor those ads 🤑

[@oiseau_libre]

@@samizayed1126 He was THINKING that, not saying! Also, Yuta was wrong: computer CAN read your mind. It just gives you wrong suggestions out of spite, hehe.

[@Rykaas]

"0:26 we have 3 types of script: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji" Me: oh god, i already have headache You made me realize i gotta say thanks to the romans for this efficent yet simple way of writing.

[@llVIU]

russians and their cyrillic: we don't do that around here

[@ulti-mantis]

But if you think about it, the "Latin" alphabet used by most European languages contains 4 scripts: upper and lower case for hand and print. It's comparable to Hiragana and Katakana in total character count.

[@Christobanistan]

@@ulti-mantis Total character count is irrelevant, it's the effort required to get them out. And upper vs lowercase versions of the same character is really not relevant since it doesn't affect which word you're typing at all and is not even necessary.

[@a2falcone]

@@ulti-mantis So we have to learn four times as many characters but only for one system (104 in the standard English alphabet). It's still only one alphabet with 104 characters, though they're really only 26 graphemes, since the duplicates represent the same sound and are thus easier to learn. Plus, many of them look pretty much the same in all scripts, so it's no effort to learn them (think of T, M, W, U, etc). Learning that is way easier than learning one sillabary with 48 completely different characters (katakana), another sillabary with 46 completely different characters (hiragana) and a logographic system with literally thousands of characters.

[@technoguyx]

The real hard thing is adjusting that writing system to whichever language you want to write -- often that relies in a ton of conventions that must be learnt at some point, or simply intuition in most cases. In English there's a lot of different sounds associated to the same combinations of letters and that usually makes it hard for foreigners to learn it at first.

[@Crystalcloudzz]

Imaging having an argument on the Internet 😩 that's why Japanese people are so polite! Haha

[@craurd]

Lol I just realized

[@OutlawKING111]

Lmao they don't wanna waste time.

[@purpledefaultpfp6233]

Murica'

[@Rhoadie1]

Imagine being in a war and trying to report anything quickly.... Or requisition supplies quickly. History doesn't seem so weird now right? Riiiiight?

[@user-ks9db9bq7l]

Oh boy. Typing in polite in Japanese is as excruciating as speaking it as it is overflowing with wordiness.

[@radovanwolf593]

"Sometimes you make a mistake because you are only human. Then you have to start again" I´m so inspired

[@smoothman8007]

-genjo

[@cactussenpai9625]

that's what i thought Freaking Genji "You are only human"

[@pikasfed]

Radovan Wolf Funniest part, "uou are only human" language is made to make humans communicate

[@keeshayip8420]

Kat MADA MADA

[@fozze9456]

ahahahha i just read this the fkn same time he said it hahaha :)))

[@smallbluemachine]

It’s becoming increasingly clear to me now why the Japanese work 18 hour days and still prefer fax machines.

[@user-xc2zz7kr8o]

This also explains why they prefer physical papers rather than digital ones.

[@mahmoudrefaat3009]

Myth: Japanese people want to finish work, go home, and watch cat videos on KZbin. Rality: they are suspended in a typing loop.

[@pseudotatsuya]

I'm Japanese. Typing Japanese is time consuming. I hate it.

[@user-gc8me5mk8b]

俺もいまだに慣れない。間違って隣のキーボード押してイライラする毎日..

[@thisguysgaming7246]

But Japanese writing system looks cool

[@user-dm3iz7yu1i]

えええ、ほんと？

[@Neonto]

I wonder there must be a better way to do this...

[@skkadoot9533]

@@user-gc8me5mk8b おかげでグーグル翻訳者

[@user-vf1pn4gy2g]

Here’s one story that I want to introduce , one day, there was a person who was texting to a friend like this 私の顔どう思う？ (How do you think about my face?) the friend texted back へいき だよ (It‘s not a problem) And then converted the letters to Kanji and sended back The texting was written like this 兵器だよ (It’s a weapon) Conclusion, converting miss can be a BIG PROBLEM

[@MEUAR]

Well hey, being told my face is a weapon would make me feel pretty fucking badass tbh.

[@lieutenantashe6673]

@@MEUAR Haha, yeah B)

Wait so "it's not a problem" and "it's a weapon" sounds the same?

[@nil8392]

F40 Yeah, many things in Japanese sound the same

[@fgv3357]

you can still understand what he was trying to say through context.

[@siuhoihui1040]

I am from Hong Kong and typing in Chinese is literally typing every word in kanji so which makes typing is Chinese is way more slower than Japanese

[@avocados1707]

im still confused 😭✋

[@mycobacteriem2540]

i saw something once on how pinyin is used to type in chinese and found it cool if not time consuming. the only keyboards I have any experience with are the US English one and the Spanish\Catalan keyboard which are both very similar variants with just a few extra characters and easier access to accent marks.

[@electricalman481]

I hear that in Taiwan they use this alphabet called “Bopomofo” to build their Chinese characters instead of the Latin alphabet. It looked easier until I realized that it’s a tonal language and they’d probably use accent marks😅

[@help8help]

I've heard that despite being a technologically advance culture that a large amount of business is still done on paper. If writing on a computer in Japanese is this complex /difficult I think I understand why they'd want to do documents by hand. It avoids errors.

[@funete5515]

Not for those reasons, but because of their aversion to change.

[@ly9]

Me : French is pretty hard to type sometimes Japanese : No Me : ok

[@CT7056]

How is french hard to type

[@kenmakozume4253]

It’s basically English letters lmao

[@ly9]

@@kenmakozume4253 was talking about grammar

[@kenmakozume4253]

@@ly9 oh yeah because of all the tenses it has that makes sense

[@kittyg8140]

@@CT7056 you have to know how to add the multiple accents if you don't have a French keyboard, if you have a French or bilingual keyboard it is a snap. If you don't have one just type "how to add French accents" there are a ton of sites that will give you the info depending on your OS and version you use.

[@DefinitelyNotAlastor]

Manga authors time consumption chart: 20% Drawing 10% Manga layout 70% Typing

[@Stxuchii]

That's 190, did you mean to go up to 200 or 100?-

[@default632]

@@Stxuchii 20 + 10 + 70 is only 100 though

[@Stxuchii]

@@default632 oh sorry my brain decided to thing It was different numbers.

[@nauka7565]

@@Stxuchii　wait, how?

[@Stxuchii]

@@nauka7565 my brain thinking it was different or??

[@tahaemad5809]

Arabic language is easy to write for me as an arabic but the problem is that arabic writing starts from right to left thats the opposite to English and other languages that use Latin alphabets. So the video games companies have to make a special things so the words can be settled from right to left . But some video games don’t even have this thing so you can’t write in arabic . Or either provide it but letters aren’t connected “ in arabic writing you have to connect the letters unlike the Latin alphabet “ so instead of this word العراق its like ا ل ع ر ا ق second problem is that when the letters are connected the game arrange the words from left to write so instead of this انا من العراق it be العراق من اناits most of the time not a serious problem you can still understand or you write in opposition so the words when arranged it becomes in the perfect arrangement but its still very painful thing

[@AstroAnalysis]

Sounds hard to deal with 😭 The example with games arranging the words from left to right looks mirrored...? So in English it would be from "goblins eat meat", to "meat eat goblins"? Is that right?

[@tahaemad5809]

@@AstroAnalysis yeah it will look like “meat eat goblins “

[@samizayed1126]

@@AstroAnalysis More often than not, letters are arranged from left to right, and they don't connect when that happens, so: الولد الصغير يأكل المثلجات gets messed up as: ت ا ج ل ث م ل ا ل ك أ ي ر ي غ ص ل ا د ل و ل ا As you can imagine this is almost unreadable

[@AstroAnalysis]

@@samizayed1126 What an absolute headache that must be 😭 I would think that newer/more modern games should have it display correctly, but... would you say it's common for games to have that sort of cut-up translation?

[@aliemadi4993]

Same as Persian, Persian is wrote on arabic script too

[@lucaspinto9114]

So, the solution to a informal conversation is simple, very simple: Send Audio fellas

[@internetisinteresting7720]

Resuming, has a cuban, it´s a pain in the ass write in japanese, imagine writing in japanese in a nokia with 3 letters buttoms

[@Charmdragon4]

You would have got more likes if you spelled buttons correctly

[@sesamtoast9431]

watch mirai nikki these guys are doing it XD

[@AndTecks]

@@Charmdragon4 You would get more buttons if you were more likeable.

[@cherrybansx7398]

i heard they prefer flip phones in japan cus its easier to type i didnt realize how stupid that was. obviously it would be even harder

[@The.Flash22]

😂

[@yoshi_drinks_tea]

1:37 “Please comment if you understand the meaning of this sentence.”

[@Martha_Inerror]

XD

[@yoshi_drinks_tea]

Antonio Vivaldi Go Bach to your country and Vivaldi respect though.

[@carlosnava1471]

Congratulations, you won the internet. Your prize will arrive in 3 days

[@yoshi_drinks_tea]

carlos nava Oh golly, how fun.

[@afonsocesar1667]

"Meu pastel é mais barato"

[@hebneh]

It amazes me that Japanese and Chinese people now think of their native languages at their most basic, fundamental level by using the Latin alphabet. And this hugely significant change is just accepted without anyone questioning it.

[@samizayed1126]

I beg for all languages to be typed using a Latin keyboard. So much uniformity! Even languages that are relatively easy to type, like Arabic, should be written or at least arranged like the Latin QWERTY.

[@Sogeking995]

It’s a little sad, but also practical

[@xtdycxtfuv9353]

It can’t be helped, Latin alphabet is just built different.

[@danielantony1882]

@@xtdycxtfuv9353 Nah, it's just the easiest to use.

[@osasunaitor]

I also thought about this. If people in Japan need a basic knowledge of the Latin alphabet to be able to write their own Japanese language, does it ever cross their minds to just use Latin altogether and make things simpler?? Just to be clear, I don't want them to change their writing system, it would be a big cultural loss to remove such a significant and ancient script. But it would definitely make things easier for them

[@lorenzoantoniodeleon8002]

Yo hablo Español y creo que lo más complicado de escribir en mi idioma es poner los acentos correctos en las vocales, pues "como" y "cómo" son dos palabras distintas y se puede dar una mala interpretación si no se usa el acento (cosa que casi nadie hace porque hasta cierto punto es redundante), también está el tema de la "h muda", en Inglés la h sí tiene un sonido característico, pero en Español se usa más que nada por tradición. Por último está el tema de las palabras con "qu", para un extrangero puede ser raro darse cuenta de que la "u" no suena, justo como la h. Todas las lenguas tienen sus particularidades y es divertido cuando te das cuenta de ellas :B

[@rociogallegossanchez3147]

If I was japanese I'd send handwritten letters instead of e-mails. Also imagine what writing a digital thesis must be like. Big OOF

[@dorferino]

scanning it and correcting it with OCR is probably faster

[@davr1]

Bruh imagine grades being based on character count

[@atomstarfireproductions8695]

There’s writing touchpads that you can use

[@amerain1729]

Writing is much harder, I think Writing characters with 15+ strokes can be a nightmare

[@hsar5]

Did you assuming my paper?

[@TheDeathJesters1337]

I like my letters even more than ever now........

[@user-jgmptqad]

英語苦手だけど、簡単な文で話してくれて分かりやすい！日本語を教えている動画なのに、英語の勉強になります笑

[@tsuyu2200]

You don’t have to go from hiragana to kanji the back to hiragana, just press the Enter key after typing hiragana, and it stays as hiragana, and just press the F7 key to put it straight into katakana!

[@ta4music459]

Yes, that works for me too, on my non-Windows PC. I find it very easy to input Japanese. No major slowdown. My wife is super fast though. She says that she's actually in the minority using this input method.. I was surprised to hear that. If that's a generation thing I don't know.

[@ChuckAKitty666]

i have a keyboard. i have an applllllle. seriously though. thanks for making this video. i was wondering how typing in Japanese worked and bam you made a video on it.

[@beyondgods9590]

iChazAshley moms spaghetti

[@keanu3260]

hey I've seen this on a prank vid the guy says "I have pen, I have apple, applepen." Is this some meme or some internet joke?

[@dcasey714]

Keanu nond Wha- Where were you throughout the later half of 2016?

[@WANDERER0070]

Keanu nond look up Piko Taro PPAP

[@PongoXBongo]

Just ask Alexa to "play PPAP", she'll hook you up. ;)

[@butter_nut1817]

And native English speakers complain about spelling inconsistencies...

[@gustavorobalo5485]

Blame the Romans for that. They spread the Latin alphabet created to be used in other languages.

[@alessiobenvenuto5159]

@@gustavorobalo5485 Isn't Romans' fault, if anglo-saxon didn't get THE GREATNESS of the Holy Roman Empire!

[@BlackSalamander439]

Gus R Most European countries added new letters or modified the existing ones from Latin alphabet to fit their language though. It’s just English that never did this for some reason. My language alone has óżźśąęńłć added to the alphabet.

[@zachariasprice3762]

@@BlackSalamander439 Portuguese has á ã â à ó ô õ é ê and used to have ü (brazilian portuguese at least)

[@filipelimartins]

@@alessiobenvenuto5159 the holy Roman empire wasn't Roman at all, it was German.

[@benedixtify]

This is fascinating! I know nothing about Japanese, but I'm a software developer and I'm looking into applying to a company whose client-facing website is in Japanese. So I started looking up things to learn about Japanese. I'd love your Japanese course!

[@tomstieve]

Thank you. That was very interesting!

[@arsnakehert]

2:27 is "why the Japanese use kanji" in 5 seconds

[@dylan2478]

Tell that to kanji club

[@azcenajordan3851]

Thank you captain

[@divxxx]

How can they understand each other orally though?

[@michaelsantos4814]

PoIsOnDiVx they transmit the kanji telepathically to the person they’re speaking to. You gain this power during N4

[@TariqNavabiGaming]

PoIsOnDiVx different syllable stress and context U can’t show syllable stress in writing It would be like rápidly vs rapídly RApidly ve rapIdly Just my 2 cents

[@rrrigil]

so thats basically why Japanese people working 14 hours a day, everyday in their life. *another one's victims of evil qwerty.*

[@JuanMorales-bv7qr]

dvorac master race

[@AniFan121]

but I have *qwertz* not *qwerty*

[@flavioionasc4947]

@@AniFan121 Are you from Germany? I think you had this keyboard because of that, but i'm not sure.

[@AniFan121]

@@flavioionasc4947 yes I am

[@moscaonthewall]

No one has really mentioned Spanish. Spanish from Mexico is especially easy because it is basically spelled the way it sounds with a couple extra letters that have special pronunciation (namely ñ). You just have to learn the pronunciation of the alphabet in Spanish and you can start reading right away. And when writing, even if you miss some accent marks, the idea still gets across because small errors don't completely change the meaning of a word.

[@tejastarawade1030]

Funny yet informative. Loved It

[@nilsekstrom3534]

When you are writing in english with swedish autocorrect on and the whole sentence looks like shit

[@adamdobrocky6269]

I am from slovakia so i know your pain.

[@Gytiss93]

When you write in lithuanian but dont have autocorrect for lithuanian so you whole essay is underlined. its so fucking painful to watch. you get used to it tho

[@isame0085]

True

[@misa-cu9xt]

Nils Ekström oo Swedish

[@oliversommer8165]

the same with danish :)

[@aidoruru1214]

Video: How Japanese people type in Japanese 2.8million people: mmm *omoshiroi*

[@gappyhigakshikata]

😂

[@faaiza5410]

I dont know what omoshiroi means but I have a feeling it means interesting

[@aidoruru1214]

@@faaiza5410 you're right

[@LadyMoncho_Cyborg]

おもしろい indeed

[@oceanman6375]

IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING KARS REFERENCE

[@carlchapman4053]

Yuta - I understand your dilemma, I am English and as you have realised in our language there is no single rule, the same word can sound different or mean different things depending on the context it is used in. The benefit of English however is how flexible it and you can often use the wrong words in a sentence and everyone will still understand what you mean, recently a man I work with asked "is you bourted that?" while pointing at something I owned, so I answered "yes, I bourted that" telling him that it was mine.

[@pancon5]

I've always wondered about this, all questions answered, great vid! I am Greek and we just use a keyboard shortcut to switch between alphabets, not that big of a deal. But of course, many a times we'll try to do something thinking we're in the other mode leading to minor frustration!

[@cuauhtemocsanchez8139]

thank you Romans for spreading the latin alphabet !! this would be too way to complicated for me.

[@mafia2boy33]

Yeah... We nordics would have the runes... HAd been cool tho Are you from Mexico?

[@akumajack1813]

Nihil est.

[@cuauhtemocsanchez8139]

i am mexican, but live in europe

[@metal87power]

Well, there would be no Latin alphabet if not for Fenicians and Greeks.

[@YiannisThiakos]

well thanx for the forgoter phoenicians that make the alphabete. then the greeks that converting it to phonetic alphabete, then the romans for further developing it. :D

[@scorp1on036]

Basic summary of this video: How do you type in Japanese Yuta? Yuta: With difficulty

[@bichito7546]

Japanese writer: I'm speed American Computers: *Jackson Storm meme intensifies*

[@rdr8414]

I love how his eyebrow moves up and down every word he speaks

[@rusterrd4037]

Never knew typing would be harder than math

[@DankDudeee]

imagine doing math with that

[@clydexmation4583]

@@DankDudeee Pain

[@JC-eq9dq]

It's hard to translate like... when you type the word: you(in japanese) it will be: yo(in english) so you need to type: kimi(in japanese) to get the right translation: you(in english)

[@maitreyajambhulkar]

Same here bro. I am native Hindi speaker. When I try to type Hindi from keyboard then it is as equal as doing Math

[@marcoponzio1644]

well, you're used to english spelling, but it's a complete mess; italian (as well as lots of other languages) is A LOT easier to write. you don't know how much time foregneirs spend to learn english spelling!

[@ecologiesofmindfulness564]

I love your channel. I think you and your explanations are wonderful

[@xXmlgamingXx355]

That was very informative, thanks

[@Yuhara_rev]

I don't know why this is on my recommendations.... Subbed.

[@user-oc8ev4ze8g]

"i don't know"

[@aragogire]

Dubbed

[@alterego7645]

+Aragog 👍

[@DinoDays703]

@@aragogire XD

[@cesarramos7642]

Same

[@disparutoo]

This video blew my mind. It's so complicated! I'm just glad that I don't have to go to that much effort in English.

[@razmuzen1090]

in english.*

[@graceobrienx8522]

Disparu If you were Japanese and wanted to learn English, you probably would find it complicated because of tense and homophones. You find English easy because you grew up learning it.

[@andrewnewman5945]

Let alone a script like Russian. Man, some of those letters that make different sounds in English always through me off.

[@spideylover2000]

Irregular verbs being common makes it easier because it's basically drilled into your head. That, and they're remnants of how Old English formed the past tense by changing the vowel (irregular verbs), or the more common system of adding a "d", or "ed" to the end. The irregulars survived because people used them so much, or verbs could've been made irregular because they sound so weird with the system currently in use. I find English to be one of the easier European languages verb wise since it has so few conjugations, and many irregulars end with a "t", "d" and sometimes "k" in the present tense.

[@ZetOpal]

Rafael; English used to be incredibly complicated, but over time it simplified. I think of it as a merchants language, many European countries teach English as a mandatory second language (as in they have to learn English). I've come across several exchange students that express differing opinions about English, some had a difficult time, others found it very easy to learn. With Japanese, I think it could do with some simplification, but simplification may mean altering a deeply rooted language which is not easy. English evolved naturally into the language it is today, forcefully altering a language is not very easy, ask the Chinese, they've created Simplified Chinese, however many of the Chinese people continue to speak some other form of Chinese. With English however, once you understand or speak it, you can speak to just about everyone who speaks it since accents don't alter the meaning behind the words, another benefit is that a large portion of the developed world speaks English. If I recall the top 5 languages that they suggest to learn are English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin (Chinese basically), and I think Indian (someone will correct me).

[@Mr.Vini2204]

I'm so glad my language uses this type of writing I'm using now, so much easier and practical LOL

[@barrywebber100]

Very fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[@shirowhiteychan10]

I majored in Japanese in college and this is the same typing method I used 5 years ago. At the time I believed that Japanese people used a keyboard with hiragana on the keys so when I moved there to teach English, I was shocked to learn that they typed the same way that I did. There are Japanese keyboards as well, but they're not all that different from the US qwerty ones. They have hiragana in addition to letters, but most people I met would ignore the hiragana characters. The T key has a か(ka) on it and the K has a の(no) so it's actually really confusing.

[@janihyvarinen73]

I have been to Japan twice, and last time I actually bought this kind of hiragana keyboard, thinking it would be useful. Not that expensive, btw, maybe ¥1,300 or something (?). The problem really is in learning another layout on top of the familiar qwerty. And since here in Finland we use a Scandinavian variant of the qwerty (with åäö + different positioning for a lot of special characters), I would be lost with those special characters since the hiragana keyboard follows the US setup for special characters. So in the end, it was a quaint souvenir but not that useful. On my iPad, I originally felt it would be better to learn to use a hiragana chart based input method but again the familiarity of qwerty trumps the savings in clicks that the hiragana chart would offer. It is simply so much faster just to type in rōmaji, see that converted into hiragana, and finally select the right kanji. Sounds complex though. (Btw, I am not yet proficient in Japanese so I don’t type a lot. But I am learning, slowly...)

[@codywinter4818]

I thought about buying some of the keys with hiragana on them for my keyboard but I realized its totally unnecessary and would just be a decoration because I already memorized the layout after using it a bit. After some practice its pretty natural to me now.

[@JavierPwns]

Damn what a waste of a college degree

[@amoatlas]

@@JavierPwns why is it a waste😭

[@zeckma]

I'm on a mobile device, so having the 3x4 flick mode on saves a lot of time in my opinion but takes time to learn. I wish Japanese keyboards had that method as well, but at this point, the qwerty method is simply better.

[@makhs8750]

Wtf how are they even able to communicate

[@screamtoasigh9984]

After watching the nativlang Japanese videos on why it's so frustrating and seeing yuta ask Japanese to write common words in kanji, I don't understand how Japanese people have gotten as far as they have and haven't cut out the dead weight or revamp it somehow. Or at least add spaces to the words..it's frustrating for me to even think about. (It really seems like a joke, nothing against Japanese people, but the language/s ...it makes no sense to me to have so many and take so long... They can't even look at it and how it's supposed to be pronounced all the time... Even just consonants... (I'm learning Hebrew and the idea that I know after a year all the words in Hebrew that he asked them to write and I can read something without knowing what it means (if the vowels are added in, usually they're not, but I could still give you the consonants and guess the root word), but they usually can't do either of those things with their native language...

[@screamtoasigh9984]

@Juan D. M. dude I'm Jewish. 🤣 get back to me when Japan matches Israel's Nobel prizes.... Or inventions...

[@bogdanbogdanoff5164]

@@screamtoasigh9984 Lol what? Israel has 8 nobel prizes excluding peace. Japan has 26 in the same period. Also mean IQ is 95 to 105 in Japan

[@screamtoasigh9984]

@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 sorry, I should have said Jewish. But feel free to do it by population between the two countries Japan has 10x the population... IQ is crap, Mongolia has a higher iq than most of the world, so does China. But so dumb they like communism. And let their kids gets bad eyesight even though just having them sit outside would fix it.

[@bogdanbogdanoff5164]

@@screamtoasigh9984 You're not just disgustingly racist personally, but your people also exploited excellent european education systems for centuries before most of you moved away, shame on you

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

When I had a project with an international student who just arrived from China, it blew her mind that I could type what I was saying in real time.

[@claraaneedssleep]

French is hard to type cause if you misspell a word it can have a totally different meaning 😭 “Nous sommes dans la mer” -> we’re in the sea “Nous sommes dans la mère” -> we’re in the mother Well

[@KnockKnockOpenTheDoorItsMe]

"We're in the mother" holy shit =))

[@charliep7973]

same with every language tho. maybe a bit more common in french

[@mel4340]

bro every language has this tho. Like in portuguese "A gente gosta muito de comer pão, mas nossa comida favorita mesmo é carne" -> We like a lot to eat bread, but our favorite meal is meat. "Agente gosta muito de comer pão, mais nossa comida favorita mesmo é carne" -> Agents like a lot to eat bread, more our favorite meal is meat.

[@claraaneedssleep]

@@mel4340 it was supposed to be a joke 😭

[@mel4340]

@@claraaneedssleep oh '-'. That's a weird joke

[@Dexbly]

Thought they just had a Japanese keyboard 💀💀💀💀💀

[@MidnightBlue105]

yeah, keyboards with 10,000 buttons

[@user-vo4jk8qf6r]

@@MidnightBlue105 they actually have one archive.google.com/drumsetkeyboard/

[@L0V3F1ST]

@@user-vo4jk8qf6r Holy sh-

[@tunehalo1497]

@@user-vo4jk8qf6r I want one 0-0

[@nekozombie]

@@user-vo4jk8qf6r back when Google had a sense of humor

[@leflipmo]

When you are dyslexic, any language is hard to type.

[@mal35m]

@CultOfWrongly Ouch! I felt that one. It is true of course. I feel doomed to read and type at 1/4 the speed of everyone else for my whole life.

[@haterodiadordeplantao.680]

when you have no arms, any language is difficult to type, too..

[@jia_lat_limlol7980]

When you type so fast you always use the wrong alphabet, any language is hard to type

[@CHO-zq2os]

My mother language is written in the exact way that we read it (one letter -> one sound). *Laughs in Romanian*

[@leflipmo]

@@CHO-zq2os I'm Finnish, so I feel you ;)

[@gildopimentelgildong587]

thanks for this information!

[@pbasswil]

Usually when something is awkward or over-complex, some person figures out a simplification that is functional and faster. And then when other people see it, they too adopt the simplification. So my question is: Is written Japanese gradually _changing/evolving,_ because people find (and spread) simpler & faster ways of writing (on computer) - ways that still express their meaning? (I mean, something similar has certainly happened with English texting. But maybe in Japanese it happens even in non-abbreviated writing....)

[@liamwood5557]

fuck me I can't even write in English

[@iae8793]

I write in 'MURICAN

[@orangie84]

So that's a combination of Mexican and Puerto Rican then ha ha ha lol

[@wispy9859]

how did you type then? fishy

[@OskarAB13]

he typed it, he dont knw to write

[@ihaveautism2557]

I DONT SPEAK LONDON

[@sodiboo]

why the fuck was this in my recommended?

[@robhans5]

You watched some animeted stuff. Shelter maybe 3 months ago? :P

[@maximiliansus2629]

ItzNoOneMLG i have the same question

[@Z0MGH4X]

ItzNoOneMLG KZbin, that's why.

[@sodiboo]

robhans5 i no watch animae (i du bed gremir pn propose}

[@Czesnek]

Because this is how the youtube is working now. They are recommending completly unrelated videos.

[@andie_pants]

This is another one of those questions which I never knew I desperately needed the answer to until I read the video title!

[@SylvainGrannary]

Thank you for letting me know, i was wondering about that for a long time! All my respect to japanese people who put so much effort to type!

[@jangalicki7539]

I'm from Poland and to be honest it's very easy to type in Polish, you just press alt and a letter that you want to change, for example alt+a gives ą, or alt+x gives ź, which is weird, but that's because alt+z gives ż. As I said, pretty easy

[@Ayasa.]

In my country our keyboards contain special letters like "ş" "ö" "ü" and "ğ"

[@freybjorn4635]

й, ё; ь, ъ Приветствую человека с котиком на аватарке, который в то же время кебаб!

[@mechanical756]

@@freybjorn4635 ыеы, ага)

[@fenrirr22]

And its pretty easy because you mostly use w,xz,r,y as an alphabet only :) (don't take too seriously the joke :D )

[@tiramisu6799]

In my country we type ㅇ ㅜ ㅌ ㅠ in every last sentence. Its a bit hard but you could get used to it

[@axnus4112]

How to type in japanese -Change your pc language to japanese.

[@captainkencel1557]

The Flower In The Garden しがお

[@kharift]

はいー

[@pain_yahikoyt8945]

おはよう

[@iscnnn9071]

しずぁにしってください。

[@yukira7983]

こんにちは 。 。 。

[@jimw.4812]

Great video! I have always wondered how one knew when to use kanji.

[@Unknown-wb4ex]

I remember trying to teach myself Japanese for about 2 years in high school, after I tried to learn Kanji I just gave up haha. I still remember enough to get around but Kanji is absolute bonkers.

[@chiquinholoco]

God, having a conversation online in japanese must be time consuming Now i can only imagine japanase playing dota, lol, and raging on the chat...everything might get writen wrong.

[@jackmcslay]

If I'm not mistaken they just type everything in hiragana/katakana in chats

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Francisco Mello actually no, they know English, the rest of the educated world is multilingual.

[@Yuujen]

I'm not sure about in games like Dota, but based on how they talk on twitch, lots of them still use kanji even in that environment.

[@chiquinholoco]

@hannify i didn't understand what you mean, but having a conversation IN JAPANESE and having to switch among 3 kinds of alphabet must be time consuming COMPARED to our alphabet

[@chiquinholoco]

@jack that is the point.

[@yannycandelario7606]

2:28 *Shows just Hiragana* Me:That aint so bad. 2:31 *Shows Kanji* Me: What dafuck.

[@yannycandelario7606]

FiveADay Kanji I know the use for what Kanji and Hirigana is, I was just trying to make a little joke. :)

[@baqikenny]

how are you doing now :/

[@hickey1292]

I feel like I've been the opposite of the concensus since I started learning Japanese. I love kanji. When you start getting into it you develop systems for recognising them based on their components, and a lot of the time there is a beautiful logic in how the kanji is formed, and what it means. Of course, there are also a bunch of exceptions that are prunounced differently for no reason, but they're fun too. :D

[@MrValgard]

when u mistaken authentication with oral tradition ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@FunSize4Audibles]

I can recognize some hiragana on sight, but ask my to write it and I'll just be scratching my head.

[@ethan2803]

What you did there with that example sentence was clever. Commenting because I can read it

[@lunastarss3192]

Tank u so much for this:D

[@Charonchan]

You mean there's another thing I can use besides Microsoft IME?? I'm gonna go download google's right now. Microsoft IME is the worrrssttt Edit: oh my god this is so much faster. Thank you

[@ThatJapaneseManYuta]

Knowledge is power.

[@larana1192]

Charon Caori Google Nihongo Nyuuryoku（Google Japanese IME） is very good

[@ImJustJaime]

Thank you so much! I never knew Google made one. It's worlds better than Microsoft's!

[@HanabiraKage]

違いがありますか？もうインストールしたんですが…

[@Charonchan]

まだあんまり使ってないんですが入力はMSより早いと思います。得にMSのショートカットキーは遅かったです。全然反応がない時もありましたし。すごく不便でした。グーグル入力はほんの一瞬で言語が変えます。本当に前よりいいと思いますよ！

[@hijack69]

And what about typing on your phone?

[@SK-tp5kf]

Hi Jack its the same, you write sa and you'll get さ

[@taehyungschicken]

Hi Jack I use Google keyboard or something like that, but I switch from English to English layout but Japanese words like what Yuta is describing. There are other formats to.

[@ketchup901]

You get 10 categories for hiragana and katakana. Category 1 is "a, i, u, e, o". Category 2 is "ka, ki, ku, ke, ko". Category 3 is "sa, shi, su, se, so". I think you get the idea. By pressing each category consecutively, you cycle trough aiueo/kakikukeko/sashisuseso. Or you can do flick typing which is done by pressing a category and flicking left for i, up for u, right for e, and down for o. A is written by simply pressing the category. You then select the kanji in a menu that's just on top of the keyboard.

[@martinskigm2472]

it's the same . I use Gokeyboard app to type in japanese on my phone ^^

[@EnraiChannel]

Swiftkey has IME style typing for Japanese.

[@Ki-dw2ro]

参考になりました！ありがとうございます！

[@noelrobles960]

That was very interesting, thank you

[@Majestic469]

0:10 I dont like where this is going

[@nikosb5755]

lol

[@AlejandraCandelaria]

Everyone in the comments: flexing about their language skills Me being the dumb ass I am: so they don't have japanese keyboard?

[@harkharring2572]

Alejandra Candelaria I think they do have a Japanese keyboard, but they have both a Latin alphabet and also a Japanese alphabet. Tho I’m not quite certain.

[@sinom]

@@harkharring2572 They do. there are multiple modes on a japanese keyboard. Normal latin mode, latin mode where it gets converted into kana/kanji, and a mode with which you can write kana directly. The last two have a bunch of sub modes for writing hiragana, katakana, half-width characters etc. (depends on the specific keyboard model a bit. Some only have some of these modes, some have even more)

[@hey-fv2gg]

If you go to tech stories most laptops do have the Japanese keyboard: it is like our regular keyboard, but with the hiragana characters as well and a few other minors changes. If you want a standard English keyboard without the Japanese letter you will have to ask for it

[@gwusan]

Algunos si, otros no.

[@default632]

@@hey-fv2gg wrong. With windows you get the normal standard version. And go to "languages" setting and install japanese. Boom japanese keyboard. It's not physically different.

[@floravau2303]

This video was interessting. I never thought about this before.

[@squeaz8268]

About 2 years ago I signed up for Yuta's free Japanese lessons and totally forgot about it until now (Sorry Yuta). Anyways, today I went back and have started taking the lessons seriously. (They're actually so helpful 10/10 would recommend)

[@koekelakouwnt7949]

Bless the Roman Empire

[@Kitsqne]

fra?

[@beluwuga2573]

@@Kitsqne fri

[@mr.poopybutthole901]

@@beluwuga2573 fru

[@DameOfDiamonds]

And the germanic peoples

[@aman-hl9re]

fre

[@TheKingsMindset]

can someone count how many times he moved his eyebrows up and down

[@enricosanchez894]

Billionaire Barbaros 173.

[@kenjikunio4487]

Billionaire Barbaros you made the video funny asf 😂😂

[@namsukeichinose]

Billionaire Barbaros Ikr yet it had to my reccomended

[@KeilanaSingh]

Ethan got competition

[@VintHeXer]

2:29 I thought to start learning Japanese, but it knocked out not only a desire, but also a tears from my eyes.

[@GiovanniPanozzo069]

Hi, I just discovered this video. Italian, my language, is not too hard to type on italian keyboard, but there are some minor problems due to a bad initial design of the italian keyboard: all uppercase accented wowels are missing. They are rarely used because you don't usually write uppercase sentences. With one exception: uppercase È is the only accented wowel used at the beginning of a sentence. So you have to use ALT+0200 to type it on windows, shift+alt+e on Mac, or improperly write as E followed by an aphostrophe.

[@lionsareus]

You can write in 3 forms of Japanese, AND speak English. It's amazing that you haven't lost your mind. Quite impressive.

[@AllTheNamesIPickedWereTaken]

lionsareus hiragana and katakana are pretty easy it's the kanji that's complicated

[@333DOT.]

plenty of people can

[@PuNiao]

I find Kanji easier since I am chinese, it's the hiragana and katakana that boggles me D:

[@jakeaivilo3821]

Riih Rion since?

[@Ghorda9]

hiragana is mostly used for prefix and suffix particles.

[@sinom]

1:37 "comment if you understand the meaning of this sentence"

[@whichevermirror]

this is the video that made me start learning japanese 4 years ago :D

[@Sariine436]

てぃしsてぇヴぃでおてゃtまでめわんあぎヴぇうpぇあrにんgじゃぱねせ

[@acaaca6512]

did you manage it?

[@whichevermirror]

@@acaaca6512 studied for 2 years, went to japan, came back and have been struggling to find motivation continue. slowly getting back into it now though, reading every night before bed :))

[@SamJoex]

i downloaded the japanese keyboard layout from the microsoft settings app and i was not prepared for how different it was from English typing i actually thought it was super cool - especially since it was compatible with my existing keyboard

[@oskariobst2622]

why would this make me want to learn japanese

[@ShoulderMonster]

Ozzie Be4r The written language is what first made me want to learn Japanese... I feel an urge to learn Korean too, but only because their system looks cool and simple. >.< Heck, everytime I see a system, I wanna understand it... But, struggling with Japanese and Spanish is more than enough for now... :'D

[@dust7962]

Strawberries777 ‪‪ I'm strugling with French and Japanese I feel ya

[@charlesadams8669]

Nina Fogweb weeb trash

[@dust7962]

***** Spanish is easy for English speakers...

[@N0vaPi3c3]

Well yeah... my native language is Spanish, and it belongs with many others (English included) to Indo-European family languages so they are related, so you guys shouldn't have to many problems. The thing is that Spanish has endless grammar rules, so that is the hardest part to learn.

[@whereeveritgoes]

This is why the Japanese are smart. They are exposed to learning crazy difficult stuff since children.

[@Gryphonzwing]

Awang Budiman and lots of fish.

[@amdoick]

And others aren't smart too?

[@CastleVaniak]

Yes and they have a iodine rich diet. Iodine is important for IQ

[@EdgarTheOgre]

Japanese are not smarter than regular people and IQ is an obsolete concept.

[@inendlesspain4724]

@@qantaz2496 I'm not too informed about it, but now they say there are different types of intelligence. For example, it's not the same being a genius mathematician than a genius painter, as they both are specialized in completely different fields and would probably have a hard time doing the same things the other can do. Of course, it's a lot more complex than that, with a lot of other concepts being taken into account like social skills, musical sensibility, language skills, etc. They say IQ is an obsolete concept now because it tries to sum up a person's entire set of skills into just a number, which in reality doesn't say much about a person.

[@davidwilliss5555]

I had to learn to use the Microsoft Japanese IME in the 90s. I worked for a software company and we needed to be able to put labels on maps in different languages. Japanese was actually one of the easier ones. Thai and Arabic were the hardest to typeset because we had to code for the fact that Thai vowels and tone marks changed position depending on the consonant. And Arabic letters have different forms for beginning of word, end of word and middle of word. And it goes right to left - but numbers and non-Arabic words still go left to right.

[@snapdragon6601]

I've always wondered how to do this. It looks hard a.f. 😀 Great video.