My favorite kanji are the ones that look like whatever they represent. I love the kanji for alcohol because 1) I love alcohol and 2) the kanji kind of looks like a sake container lol.
Tbh the kanji are directly inherited from Chinese language, there is a period in history which Japan is largely influenced by Chinese. However China now has abandoned traditional Chinese and replaced it with Simplified Chinese, which lost its beauty, as implied by the name because it is simplified, it is much different now
This is not limited to Japanese, but I understand that it is important to study the same things as the children of the country in order to improve the language. Many of the kanji learned in the first grade of elementary school are simple, but they appear frequently and appear in other kanji, so they are an important element to build the foundation of Japanese.
As an adult you have more freedom to choose other, faster methods, because you have a job, a life, etc... if you want to learn Japnese quickly as an adult my experience taught me that learning another order of Kanji is more efficient for adults. For example: It's easy to remember 村 as 木 + 寸 and think like "cut down trees, measure them and build houses" or something. It is much more convenient to know about 寸 early on. But it's very difficult to explain "measurement" to an 8 year old. Of course this is just my experience and I think there are many ways to study Japanese. I study Japanese not only with my brain, but also with my heart. :)
Sae Rin there are like 50,000 kanji in total and it was invented before the fifth century, yet 48,000 of it was pretty much useless to japan, so yes, most of it is ancient forgotten script
Sae Rin it does but china also doesn’t memorize all 50,000 letters cause that would be impossible lol. they prolly know more kanji than japanese people, but i didn’t mention it cause i’m not sure how much the average chinese person knows
Hi i'm from Chile. my native language is the Spanish and I want to learn Japanese and English i don't know how to learn for myseft, but I'll learn anyway
Nah my favorite is 䨺. It means cloud. It's so complex because clouds were introduced by china in the 3rd century. They were pretty new in China as well. There were no clouds before then. How do you even read kanji on a phone
I'm learning chinese so the characters were already familiar for me. What i feel especially happy about is how although the pronunciation changed completely the meaning of the characters stayed the same😍
「s o o - r i」 What are you using to study? I’m using Duolingo and I was able to learn the hiragana alphabet in about 5 days (I can read, but not write yet). You should try it if you haven’t already!
Thats because the first kanji were written or better carved on bones or shells from turtles(2 examples). Carving those is easy with rectangle, but super hard in circle forms. That's why the sun the eye and many more have rectangle forms.
let's just say most if not all pen don't, no one really writes like that (coming from the perspective of a chinese), the way of writing presented here is usually seen in printed materials and never as someone's actual handwriting
@@danikdanik3980 if i could reply with a picture, I'd show you what my chinese handwriting looks like, it isn't pretty that's for sure but even the prettiest chinese handwriting among my friends isn't that neat
@@adourinqly this. I can confirm this is 100% true. Ppl get confused as to how to write neatly when I don't got damn time. The teacher is spewing sentences after sentences, I don't got time to be neat. Occasionally, the dumbass me would forget a few characters and how to write them, so I throw in the han yu pin yin.
ad0urinqly this is Japanese though And as someone who lived in japan for 5 years we do actually hand write these words. Sure we do sometimes type them on a computer but we do in fact actually hand write them
Most satisfying to watch for relaxation and Kanji study. Love the perfect way the lines slightly misalign (as they should in written Kanji versus the robotic printed style), plus the perfect flicks for the little hooks at the end of many of those. This pen appears to be the Porsche of pens. A master tool for the craft but I'd never dare use one without Takumi's killer calligraphy skill. How your hand does this I will never understand. I'd love to see a vid on the most complex Kanji out there. If anyone can write them it's you !!
ありがとうございます I'm studying japanese by my own on internet this year and, besides Hiragana and Katakana I almost learned all these kanjis. Watching your videos so far was very useful. I am an old woman 58 y.o. . 🙏
Katakana ist easier to learn because you can find them whenever a word from another language ist translated. I learned a lot of Katakana by trying to translate Japanese reimported CD-booklets - yes, I still buy CD's!
Seeing you wrote onna, I remember what my teacher said in uni: Sensei: Do you all know why female ninja is called kunoichi? Sensei: * writes く、ノ、一 (ku , no, ichi) and it became 女* The class: *surprised pikachu face*
That’s a great way to remember both the word for kunoichi and the kanji 女！ He doesn’t write it here, but I will never forget the kanji for mother (母) because my Japanese teacher told us when she was in elementary school, her teacher told the class to remember it like: does your mother have big 母 or small 母? So now I will never not think of boobs when writing 母 lmao
And the stupidest thing I did in my university carrier is mistaking mouth (口) as katakana for "ro" (ロ). I sat there, in the middle of the final test at the reading comprehension section, wondering why the sentence doesn't make sense lmao
月曜日 monday lunes 월요일 火曜日 tuesday martes 화요일 水曜日 wednesday miyerkules 수요일 木曜日 thursday huwebes 목요일 金曜日 friday biyernes 금요일 土曜日 saturday sabado 토요일 日曜日 sunday linggo 일요일 Also the transcription of the Japanese 'Kanji' is similar, if not the same to the Korean 'Hanja'. (obviously pronunciation is different) Korean: 月 -> 월 [wol] (달 - moon) 火 -> 화 [hwa] (불 - fire) 水 -> 수 [soo] (물 - water) etc. Hope you learned something new :)
目 is literally an eye. Above and below rectangles are eyelids and the middle rectangle is the eyeball. 火 has the main flame and 2 ashes flying away on each side. 口 is an wide opened mouth.
I’m Chinese. This reminds me of when I was in elementary school we need to practice hand writing so often, especially in lower grades. As a kid I used to hate that but now I miss that so much. It’s been so long since the last time I hand wrote something other than my signature.
aspol12 I have been in Canada for more than 5 years and since I came here I almost have no chance to write Chinese except for my signature. Even when back in China we also rarely hand wrote because so many things are electronic.
Thats the thing though we haven't been speaking Japanese very long, and if you think about first graders, they haven't either since they're so young, so dw, we're on the right track 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Also be sure to learn hiragana and kanji way to write your Japanese vocab, cause then your brain will start to remember that certain kanji relate to certain things. 学生 (がくせい) is gakusei in kanji and hiragana. The kanji gaku (学) means learn, and gakusei means student, which makes sense. If you look at kanji and hiragana simultaneously, it will get easier to understand them. Best of luck my friend 🙏🏾
Same for me, no matter what type of characters / alphabets, in any kind of languages, my handwriting is horrible as always. Even my hand signatures is so inconsistent, and is not really 100% the same in its shape every each time i draw my hand signature.
My handwriting in my native language, russian and latin letters as well is atrocious to the point where people ask me what words I wrote... I'm almost scared of writing kanji characters because I know it ain't gonna end well lmao
@@johnSmith-jp5qg My dude not to be rude, but circle pictographs and circle shapes are quite widely distributed and are found in 1 in 5 of all French caves. Source: Aurignacian Art c.40,000-25,000 BCE
0:07 right - migi 0:23 rain - ame 0:41 circle - en 0:53 king - oh 1:05 sound - oto 1:23 under - shita 1:32 fire - hi 1:45 flower - hana 2:02 shell - kai
zhangaloser actually the two new systems (hiragana and katakana) were naturally occurred as ancient Japanese tried to write letters easier, not like "let's make another system!(=ﾟωﾟ)" Sorry for serious reply ^_^;
You couldn’t be wrong to think that, since the kanji for mountain kinda looks like a mountain... My guess is maybe some millennia ago the Chinese character for circle was an actual circle, but they noticed all the other characters were square shaped, so they had to fix it to look good in a presentation and it just stuck.
I feel like you'd run into problems with that. A circle can be a circle, bit it could also be the sun, or an eyeball, or an orange or a wheel, or a dinner plate. It just isn't descriptive enough.
i took extension japanese classes in high school where we actually did have to write essays on paper, in our final exam we were given 40 minutes to write 600ji (about 1 and a half pages of japanese boxed essay paper like you see in the video). it's not as fast as writing in english but since japanese uses a mix of kanji and kana it's not so bad. writing an essay in only chinese characters would be a different story though, RIP to the hands of all chinese language students.
@cold yeah, Japan sent scholars to China to learn their language to input it to their own language. It’s not literally the same as Chinese though, some Chinese kanji doesn’t exist in Japanese and they both differ in the way you read them.
@@anonym3936 i before e except after c except when it sounds like “a” as in neighbor and weigh… and the list of exceptions goes on and on. And don’t get me started on contract and contract, which are spelled the same but mean different things depending on how I say it.
Very nice hand-writing! I can't write that much clear and satisfied. 0:10 "권리" is correct translation, but, that kanji is the direction. So, "오른쪽" is the right translation. (If other Korean speaker noted, please ignore this comment.)
if you learned 2 kanji each day without forgetting them, you would have learned 750 characters in a year... which makes 2190 in three years... so by the end of the college you would be "fluent" at kanji :DD i mean would be able to read newspapers and manga
@@hcrdfju4954 That's true, because when you learn languages or anything in general at a younger age, you tend to learn quicker and you will be more efficient in it.
Thank you, at last I can learn how to really write the kanji forming all the strokes properly, makes it all click into place in my mind, somehow… plus it is such a joy to simply watch this, it’s like watching a performance of beauty and flawless grace…. 💖
Once i had a guide about interpreting Japanese Kanji. As far as I remember... 0:03 one, it means one equals one stroke or stick. 0:20 the crossed lines represent a hand and the square is a mouth "The hand you use to eat". 0:35 a cloud and rain falling from it. 0:52 a circle, but due to the squareness of kanji, is drawn that way. 1:20 the sun is represented by the small square under a pictograph of a man standing up resembling the sense of awakeness and the sound of things in the morning. 1:30 the upper line represents the ground and the lower draw represents something beneath.1:41 that's the shape of fire 2:31 a small boy receiving stuff or knowledge into his head and a hand is putting it inside his 3:10 the left draw is a radical for "man" and the left one is a tree " a man resting over a tree". 3:40 a metal that shines even inside a house.4:57 an open mouth. 5:24 a hand handling some sort of tool or a rule "The hand you use to grab something for work". 5:38 tree strokes or sticks. 5:48 the simplest way to draw a mountain. 5:59 a little boy that has to be cared in arms.7:27 The simplest representation of a carriage, today's is used for cars as well. 7:46 two arms crossing one over the other, every arm has a hand and every hand has five fingers.. 7:59 a sapling or a plant sprouting form the ground. 8:12 "a woman is the one who can create a new life from inside" or "can be pregnant". 8:34 the lower line is the ground and the upper draw is a plant. 8:55 "a forest is comprised of many trees". 9.06 " a man". 10:13 "the waxing moon behind a mountain". 10:25 a hand grabbing a stone. 10:43 Fire from beneath the ground.11:04 a water flow. 11:32 the sun too close to the horizon at dawn. 12:33 a man with his arms wide open.12:52 the force that works the rice paddies. 14:07 this is how a rice paddy looks like. 14:42 "a day" or "the sun" 16:12 also represents "origin". 16:27 a "mouth" calling out to somebody in the night -by his/her name-. Those are all I remember, please if I'm wrong, let me know PEACE..!
@@アキ-d2e true some are hard to read im chinese but i was born and live in indonesia and i suck at chinese but i can read basic chinese symbols. Its actually not that hard.
@@TristanBanks the arabic translations are kinda wrong tho haha, for example right (direction) is translated to right (as in right like law and all lol) the direction right in arabic is يمين
@@sapphire_music7080 it sounds like a compliment to me lol, like imagine your language using characters that look like art to some people, the english alphabet cant relate :')
@@doublecircus yeah in one day ive already gotten the hang of hiragana now im trying to master katakana! (* - *) although my methods consisted of writing each character more than 10 times after learning their sounds
As a traditional Chinese user I would tell you it shouldn't be too good looking. In fact, I am still not quite good at writing as an adult, either in Chinese or English
If you are profecient in Chinese, or any language, every character, word or slang has a shape. When we read fast, our mind fills in the gaps, regardless of language. Same goes to kanji or Chinese. We take the general shape of the character and identify it through context. It would be painstakingly slow to read every single character as it is.
I'm learning Japanese by myself for almost a year now and I knew all these kanjis except 4 or 5. I really had to improve my handwriting, so thank you for this video. You take your time to write, so it is very easy to follow you. ありがとうございます！
Your not wrong at all. Having gone to Switzerland and France and being able to speak a bit...but not understand the writing. Is a truely horrifying feeling, you feel as if you are the stupidest person alive or you feel like the world just got a whole lot harder to navigate.
I was thinking one day that when 木 is tree, 林 is woods, 森 if forest. 本 is a book and in my logic 本本 will be books and 本本本 will be library. Same as mori kanji but 3 horizontal lines added. :D Btw that kanji drawing looks so cool. :)
blackheavyblans good idea but unluckily we asian don‘t use this charactor. In China we use “图（drawing）书（book，in traditional Chinese 書）馆（cultural or sports building）” or “圕（library）”
as a kid, my mum used to tell me stories to remember the characters. one of these stories was about a guy who learned how to write 1, 2, 3 (一二三) and for his coming of age ceremony, he had to write out his name, which had the character 100 (百) in it. thing is, he followed the increasing line pattern and ended up writing 100 strokes for his name
tell my wifi love her there is an old story in China：a guy learns 一 二 三 then he thinks he knows all. When he writes his wife‘s family name he finds that his wife’s family name is 万（means 10000）
I think that is the biggest mistake many of us make right from the start though. Letting ourselves get intimidated by the sheer amount of ALL kanji, instead of taking it a bit of the time. The video itself says 80 kanji for FIRST graders, in other words, Japanese children aren't learning all 2000 at once either.
Believe me, In general, kanji is much harder to look shitty compare to other writing systems. Because It has aesthetic design by it's nature, its pretty much impossible to fuck it up so hard to make it look ugly.
Others struggle with the writing while us Chinese would struggle with the pronunciation. When I see 下，my instincts take over and I say _xià_ instead of _shita_
same xd im not even a native chinese speaker, but ive been learning mandarin for about 6 months now im nowhere near proficient but i can still recognise quite a lot of kanji, so i keep messing up the pronounciation because i started learning chinese first lol
I always hear about that difficulty for Chinese speakers, and I'm just wondering if that could be me someday😂 After watching one C-drama I mixed up simple stuff like zhong and naka, but it did get me more interested in Chinese :) Maybe I'll not get ahead of myself and continue with Japanese first :3
@@mika_7846 late but, kanji is hard to translate, ame can mean “rain, rainy, raining”, some kanji like 日 mean multiple things, that kanji is used as a day counter and so much more
@@emsub1199 this is really old but if i remember right i was talking about the arabic teanslation it was really off in some words lol should have been more precise my bad
Japanese: we need to develop a writing system. Some guy: it must be hard as fuck to memorize and words should take forever to write down. Japanese: seems legit.
Cristina Elia Ive recently taken the plunge into kanji but I know a arduous journey is ahead of me, I only know spanish and English sorry if you didn’t care or I’m a bother I just wanted to share something to you
Today I passed a Japanese language exam. My level is determined so I can join to a proper class for me. Thanks to your videos that I could write hiragana more properly. Still I have to practise a lot because it is not easy to forget old learnings. But from now on, I will follow your channel's videos and my teachers' guidance. I just wanted to show that how you helped me. Still, I do not have courage to write in Japanese. Not yet :)
“Right” (as in right and left) in Portuguese isn’t “certo” it’s direito. Certo means “okay”, but from what I see the character “right” is for directions.
@@juztkei the traslation for "right" would be "derecha" not "derecho" if we're talking about directions. "Derecho" means "straight" in the same context
What is the name of the font that you installed to your hand?
😂😂
"Kakkoikana"
이딴 댓글이 웃기냐 시발ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Sarasa 1.0
@@songoku8259 I prefer using Sarasa 0.5 tho. Just the perfect size for writing essays XP
0:01 一、(ichi) one
0:10 右、(migi) right
0:25 雨、(ame) rain
0:42 円、(en) circle
0:57 王、(oh/ou) king
1:07 音、(oto) sound
1:25 下、(shita) under
1:34 火、(hi) fire
1:50 花、(hana) flower
2:03 貝、(kai) shell
2:20 学、(gaku) learn
2:35 気、(ki) spirit
2:50 九、(kyu) nine
3:00 休、(yasumu) rest
3:14 玉、(tama) ball
3:26 金、(kin) gold
3:48 空、(sora) sky
4:04 月、(tsuki) moon
4:15 犬、(inu) dog
4:25 見、(miru) look
4:40 五、(go) five
4:52 口、(kuchi) mouth
5:00 校、(koh/kou) school
5:18 左、(hidari) left
5:32 三、(san) three
5:43 山、(yama) mountain
5:52 子、(ko) child
6:02 四、(yon) four
6:15 糸、(ito) yarn
6:31 字、(Ji) letter (character)
6:44 耳、(mimi) ear
7:00 七、(nana) seven
7:14 車、(kuruma) car
7:30 手、(te) hand
7:40 十、(ju) ten
7:49 出、(shutsu) come from
8:03. 女、(onna) woman
8:16. 小、(ko) small
8:26. 上、(ue, shou) above
8:39. 森、(mori) forest
9:01. 人、(hito) human
9:12 水、(mizu) water
9:22 正、(sei) correct
9:36 生、(sei) live
9:50 青、(ao) blue
10:09 夕、(yū/yuu) evening
10:17 石、(ishi) stone
10:31 赤、(aka) red
10:49 千、(sen) thousand
11:00 川、(kawa) river
11:07 先、(sen) tip (point)
11:23 早、(soh/sou, haya) fast, early
11:55 足、(ashi) legs
12:10 村、(mura) village
12:27 大、(dai) big
12:40 男、(otoko) male
12:55 竹、(take) bamboo
13:06 中、(naka, chu) medium, middle
13:18 虫、(mushi) insect
13:32 町、(machi) town
13:47 天、(ten) heaven
13:57 田、(ta) field
14:10 土、(tsuchi) soil
14:26 二、(ni) two
14:35 日、(hi, nichi) day, sun
14:48 入、(nyuu/nyū) enter
14:56 年、(nen) year
15:08 白、(shiro/shiroi) white
15:20 八、(hachi) eight
15:25 百、(hyaku) hundred
15:38 文、(bun) sentence
15:52 木、(ki) wood
16:04 本、(hon) book
16:32 目、(me) eye
16:45 立、(ritsu) stand
16:48 力、(chikara) power
17:05 林、(hayashi) woods
17:20 六、(roku) six
THANKS
Thanks me later
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How much Time cost u to made this ,🤔
@@adnanorochi3761 I'm still trying to type it down 😥
一（いち） → 0:01
右（みぎ） →0:07
雨（あめ） →0:23
円（えん）→ 0:41
王（おう）→0:54
音（おと）→1:07
下（した）→ 1:25
火（ひ）→ 1:34
花（はな）→ 1:47
貝（かい）→2:03
学（かぐ）→2:19
気（き）→2:34
九（きゅう）→ 2:48
休（やす-む)→ 2:59
玉（たま）→3:15
金（きん）→ 3:37
空（そら）→3:47
月（つき）→4:05
犬（いぬ）→4:16
見 （みる）→4:25
五（ご）→ 4:39
口 （くち）→ 4:52
校 （こう）→ 5:00
左（ひだり）→ 5:17
三（さん）→ 5:31
山（やま）→ 5:42
子（こ）→ 5:51
四（よん）→ 6:02
糸 （いと）→6:15
字 （じ）→6:31
耳（みみ）→6:46
七（なな）→ 7:01
車 （くるま）→ 7:14
二（に）→ 14:25
手 （て）→ 7:31
十（じゅう）→ 7:40
出 （でる）→ 7:48
女 （おんな）→ 8:03
小 （こ）→ 8:17
上 （うえ）→ 8:26
森 （もり）→ 8:38
人 （ひと）→ 9:01
水（みず）→ 9:10
正 （せい）→ 9:22
生 （せい）→ 9:36
青 （あお）→ 9:50
夕（ゆう）→ 10:08
石 （いし）→ 10:17
赤 （あか）→ 10:30
千 （せん）→ 10:49
川 （かわ）→ 10:58
先 （せん）→ 11:07
早 （はやい）→ 11:23
草 （くさ）→ 11:37
足 （あし）→ 11:54
村 （むら）→ 12:20
大（おおきい）→ 12:26
男 （おとこ）→ 12:40
竹 （たけ）→ 12:55
中 （なか）→ 13:07
虫 （むし）→ 13:19
町 （まち）→ 13:32
天 （てん）→ 13:47
田 （た）→ 13:58
土 （つち）→ 14:10
二（に）→ 14:25
日 （にち）→ 14:26
入 （にゅう）→ 14:48
年 （ねん）→ 14:56
白 （しろい）→ 15:10
八 （はち）→ 15:19
百（ひゃく）→ 15:25
文 （ぶん）→ 15:38
木 （き）→ 15:52
本（ほん）→ 16:03
名 （な）→ 16:17
目 （め）→ 16:31
立 （たつ）→ 16:44
力 （りょく）→ 16:57
林 （はやし）→ 17:05
六（ろく）→ 17:20
legend
Love you
Thank you Chad
ありがとう❤
ありがとうございます🙏❤️😍👍🎉👏👏👏👏
金 3:27
火 1:35
月 4:04
山 5:42
水 9:09
川 10:57
木 15:53
田 13:56
土 14:10
日 14:33
見 4:25
一 0:41
二 14:25
三 5:33
四 6:01
五 4:40
六 17:21
七 7:02
八 15:19
九 2:49
十 7:40
百 15:25
千 10:50
円 0:42
学 2:18
生 9:36
本 16:03
中 13:07
人 9:02
車 18:14
休 2:59
Thanks man😅👌👍🏼
LMAO dude you did it
@@ashifjishanmondal1697 شكرا لك انت الافضل مافعلته فعلا مدهش
Người việt nè
blessed you my friend
I love how he translated kanji to 5 different languages. That's education pure out of his heart.
my dumbass was wondering why he wasn't translating the kanji to Chinese for a few seconds 💀💀
Elliot W. Lmao
@@elliotw.888 lol
Elliot W. But i did wish he wrote the chinese pinyin for it. Since I’m kinda trying to remember both
A lot of the translations are pretty off though :/
I like how the kanji for rain literally looks like rain on a window. So cute!
My favorite kanji are the ones that look like whatever they represent. I love the kanji for alcohol because 1) I love alcohol and 2) the kanji kind of looks like a sake container lol.
@@murrr1808 口 = mouth. Its great.
Fire also
I like being able to see how parts are combined with kanji like that, like 雨 being a part of 電
Tbh the kanji are directly inherited from Chinese language, there is a period in history which Japan is largely influenced by Chinese. However China now has abandoned traditional Chinese and replaced it with Simplified Chinese, which lost its beauty, as implied by the name because it is simplified, it is much different now
Me : Mom can I have a circle ?
Mom : we have circle at home
Circle at home : 円
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圓
😝
@@XD-nl1wl 圈
@@w花b j'ai fait l'école du rire
This is not limited to Japanese, but I understand that it is important to study the same things as the children of the country in order to improve the language. Many of the kanji learned in the first grade of elementary school are simple, but they appear frequently and appear in other kanji, so they are an important element to build the foundation of Japanese.
As an adult you have more freedom to choose other, faster methods, because you have a job, a life, etc... if you want to learn Japnese quickly as an adult my experience taught me that learning another order of Kanji is more efficient for adults. For example: It's easy to remember 村 as 木 + 寸 and think like "cut down trees, measure them and build houses" or something. It is much more convenient to know about 寸 early on. But it's very difficult to explain "measurement" to an 8 year old.
Of course this is just my experience and I think there are many ways to study Japanese. I study Japanese not only with my brain, but also with my heart. :)
1:07 ete#( ) 1:42
this man's handwriting is godly while mine looks like some kind of ancient forgotten language
isn’t most kanji almost ancient forgotten language
thicclasagna ...what??
Sae Rin there are like 50,000 kanji in total and it was invented before the fifth century, yet 48,000 of it was pretty much useless to japan, so yes, most of it is ancient forgotten script
thicclasagna China exists though?
Sae Rin it does but china also doesn’t memorize all 50,000 letters cause that would be impossible lol. they prolly know more kanji than japanese people, but i didn’t mention it cause i’m not sure how much the average chinese person knows
I'm a Japanese learning Spanish and the subtitles really help me to learn Spanish words
I’m trying to learn Japanese and I’m Spanish speaker, if you ever want to chat and help each other let me know!!
Hi
i'm from Chile.
my native language is the Spanish and I want to learn Japanese and English
i don't know how to learn for myseft, but I'll learn anyway
@@josefauwu6144 try using hello talk and talking to people, it's useful
You’re big brain
Elliot W. Wow thank you so much for your recommendation 💞
this popped up in my recommendations and i am enjoying it very much
same
Same
Same bro
Same
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I love how there is no talking in this. Just writing. Loved it. The silence helps concentrate.
"What's your favorite kanji?"
Me: 一
And to think 6 year olds are learning this. Most 6 year olds I've met are just learning that school supplies are not food.
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One.
一
Nah my favorite is 䨺. It means cloud. It's so complex because clouds were introduced by china in the 3rd century. They were pretty new in China as well. There were no clouds before then.
How do you even read kanji on a phone
Being someone who studies Japanese. This is one of the most relaxing yet most frustrating things ive ever watched.
I feel you!
For me it was really good because I could at least see that I was making some progress (I recognized most of the kanji)
@@DaChrisstar i feel you
BAhahahahah YES
Try learning Chinese: EVERYTHING is kanji :)
Someone: *is just writing Japanese symbols*
Me at 5AM: i n t e r e s t i n g
Oh Lord, kanji literally means "chinese characters". The japanese borrow words from chinese.
yueshijoorya sorry, didn’t know that. UA-cam just decided to recommend me this and i’m just "yeah, why not?"
If chinese can see this comment, you can get a thousand comments of chinese. But don't worry, they have a dictatorship.
Ахаха
that hits hard coz it’s literally 5am here
I'm learning chinese so the characters were already familiar for me. What i feel especially happy about is how although the pronunciation changed completely the meaning of the characters stayed the same😍
Yea so I guess it’s easier for both nations to learn each other’s languages
Why is no one talking about the pen?
I've never seen a pen that writes so smooth
ikr
YES
Strawberry Lemon zebra... sarasa clip... 1908?
Japanese pens are really good, Pilot,Pentel and Uni pens are smooth af.
this would be such a good ad for it lol
The fact that he teaches this for free and translate it to multiple languages really impressed me
@ᄋᄋ yeh he used google translate, you expected more than that =)))) he cannot learn so many languages like that mennn
@ᄋᄋ he also completely butchers Arabic lol
In an instance every language is blue and Arabic says green
@@adeldell8275 green and blue are both Ao in japanese (there's a different word for green but its for a specific type of green)
jisho does pretty much the same :)
@@auua1001 wouldnt it be midori and aoi/ao?
Me: **struggles in learning Hiragana**
Japanese 1st graders: **already learning 80 kanji letters**
Me: HOLD THE DAMN PHONE---
As for me, i firstly learned 1st grade kanji lol
@Wisdom Pine Oh, yeah that sound super good, could you please share the video? i'll be so thankfull ^^
「s o o - r i」
What are you using to study? I’m using Duolingo and I was able to learn the hiragana alphabet in about 5 days (I can read, but not write yet). You should try it if you haven’t already!
頑張ってください！！Hang in there
Use mnemonics. I learned hiragana and katakana in under 3 days.
The kanji writing system is definitely one of the most beautiful kinds of art.
Japanese people: let's make a kanji for circle! *draws a square*
Thats because the first kanji were written or better carved on bones or shells from turtles(2 examples).
Carving those is easy with rectangle, but super hard in circle forms. That's why the sun the eye and many more have rectangle forms.
@@sanaito7807 I see... thanks for the knowledge
@@Hanesboi
Lol
If you change the square part on circle to a circle, it looks like a bum with two legs
3:14 Tama (玉): ball
And the next one Kin (金): gold
Kin + Tama. Put them together and you have... That's right, testicles.
おかま ah yes, thank you Sir Francis of the Filth
Golden balls?
@@shikhar16997 yeah it's kinda like a slang for testicles
おい、なに外国人に変なこと教えてるんだ笑
@@xyzcharna9067 ww
I must’ve bought the wrong pen, mine doesn’t do that
let's just say most if not all pen don't, no one really writes like that (coming from the perspective of a chinese), the way of writing presented here is usually seen in printed materials and never as someone's actual handwriting
i learned chinese and i have no idea how the handwriting would look like, and that’s how i wrote the hanzi
@@danikdanik3980 if i could reply with a picture, I'd show you what my chinese handwriting looks like, it isn't pretty that's for sure but even the prettiest chinese handwriting among my friends isn't that neat
@@adourinqly this. I can confirm this is 100% true.
Ppl get confused as to how to write neatly when I don't got damn time. The teacher is spewing sentences after sentences, I don't got time to be neat.
Occasionally, the dumbass me would forget a few characters and how to write them, so I throw in the han yu pin yin.
ad0urinqly this is Japanese though
And as someone who lived in japan for 5 years we do actually hand write these words. Sure we do sometimes type them on a computer but we do in fact actually hand write them
Most satisfying to watch for relaxation and Kanji study. Love the perfect way the lines slightly misalign (as they should in written Kanji versus the robotic printed style), plus the perfect flicks for the little hooks at the end of many of those. This pen appears to be the Porsche of pens. A master tool for the craft but I'd never dare use one without Takumi's killer calligraphy skill. How your hand does this I will never understand. I'd love to see a vid on the most complex Kanji out there. If anyone can write them it's you !!
ありがとうございます
I'm studying japanese by my own on internet this year and, besides Hiragana and Katakana I almost learned all these kanjis. Watching your videos so far was very useful. I am an old woman 58 y.o. . 🙏
Does that say Thank you (Formally), I think it says arigatou gozaimasu in Romaji. こんにちわ
@@boenana-3054 yes!
@@boenana-3054 yep
Best of luck on your learning journey madam :D
Katakana ist easier to learn because you can find them whenever a word from another language ist translated. I learned a lot of Katakana by trying to translate Japanese reimported CD-booklets - yes, I still buy CD's!
Seeing you wrote onna, I remember what my teacher said in uni:
Sensei: Do you all know why female ninja is called kunoichi?
Sensei: * writes く、ノ、一 (ku , no, ichi) and it became 女*
The class: *surprised pikachu face*
That’s a great way to remember both the word for kunoichi and the kanji 女！
He doesn’t write it here, but I will never forget the kanji for mother (母) because my Japanese teacher told us when she was in elementary school, her teacher told the class to remember it like: does your mother have big 母 or small 母? So now I will never not think of boobs when writing 母 lmao
@@rochelle4133 Lmao i remembered it that way with rtk too XD
And the stupidest thing I did in my university carrier is mistaking mouth (口) as katakana for "ro" (ロ).
I sat there, in the middle of the final test at the reading comprehension section, wondering why the sentence doesn't make sense lmao
*surprised pikachu face*
くノ一くノ一 wdh is happening with my japanese keyboard
月:🌙moon
火:🔥fire
水:💧💦water
木:🌲wood
金:💰gold
土: soil
日:☀️Sun
The weekly
月曜日 monday lunes
火曜日 tuesday martes
水曜日 wednesday miyerkules
木曜日 thursday huwebes
金曜日 friday biyernes
土曜日 saturday sabado
日曜日 sunday linggo
aye!
I'm better at using the English alphabet than kanji LOL
月 amogus
@@Zuiccon bruh😭
月曜日 monday lunes 월요일
火曜日 tuesday martes 화요일
水曜日 wednesday miyerkules 수요일
木曜日 thursday huwebes 목요일
金曜日 friday biyernes 금요일
土曜日 saturday sabado 토요일
日曜日 sunday linggo 일요일
Also
the transcription of the Japanese 'Kanji' is similar, if not the same to the Korean 'Hanja'. (obviously pronunciation is different)
Korean:
月 -> 월 [wol] (달 - moon)
火 -> 화 [hwa] (불 - fire)
水 -> 수 [soo] (물 - water) etc.
Hope you learned something new :)
I love your works! I'm currently learning Japanese and I'm using this video to learn kanji! Thank you and keep it up!
hi, i read your coment after 2 years, hows going with your japanese i like to know
Normal people at 2 am: sleeping
Me: watching how to write 80 different kanjies
It's literally 2 am rn
It's 03:00 AM but when I saw your comment it was 02:59 AM lmao
It's 3 in the morning and I just put this in the background while studying
Im at 02.58 AM
who wants to learn kanji writing at 3 a.m?
i will never forget 雨 because it totally looks like rain on a window
目 is literally an eye. Above and below rectangles are eyelids and the middle rectangle is the eyeball.
火 has the main flame and 2 ashes flying away on each side.
口 is an wide opened mouth.
A lot of Chinese and Japanese characters are based on physical descriptions of what the word is describing
@@x0cx102 not really. 夢 気 神 describe abstract things. If you can see a dream in 夢 I give you 10€
@@x0cx102 not really. 夢 気 神 describe abstract things. If you can see a dream in 夢 I give you 10€
@@The15You not for this example but there are plenty you can find them from a simple search
Best Calligrapher on UA-cam! All of my Kanji are drawn with blender 2D software ...
i love how the kanji for rain looks like a window looking out on a rainy day
How else is watching this just because it looks so satisfying how he writes?
I just have to take a second and appreciate how smooth that pen is
I need that pen
Or hand lol
サメ (SAME)
@@wai632 sa me
Writes 'circle' in Japanese
Proceeds to draw a square
AtrolinK Chinese people made the letters. You better ask them instead.
Not all of them though.
yeah just like you draw actual circle when writing the word. it's not friggin Egyptian hieroglyph, dumbass
German Pie As a person who learned kanji and Japanese, I can say that this explanation is really good.✔️
@German Pie but Chinese is more abstract
@German Pie not for everything
This is like the best handwriting I've ever seen. I've known these kanji for years, I'm honestly just here to admire how pretty it is.
I’m trying to learn Japanese, and honestly I’m just honored to know that I know at least some of what 1st graders do hahaha
@Eleana Siwatibau ni -
kawaiimochi San 三
四
go 五
@@yum.47 *五
I’m Chinese. This reminds me of when I was in elementary school we need to practice hand writing so often, especially in lower grades. As a kid I used to hate that but now I miss that so much. It’s been so long since the last time I hand wrote something other than my signature.
顾挺宇 Write in Chinese during your free time my friend. It is a relaxing activity.
Polowogs Thanks, I will try 😀
顾挺宇 how has it been going?
aspol12 I have been in Canada for more than 5 years and since I came here I almost have no chance to write Chinese except for my signature. Even when back in China we also rarely hand wrote because so many things are electronic.
Same, I have also forgotten so much characters, like I can read and recognize most but I don't know how to write them
The fact that this is 1st grade stuff and I don’t know any of it makes me cry
Thats the thing though we haven't been speaking Japanese very long, and if you think about first graders, they haven't either since they're so young, so dw, we're on the right track 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Also be sure to learn hiragana and kanji way to write your Japanese vocab, cause then your brain will start to remember that certain kanji relate to certain things.
学生 (がくせい) is gakusei in kanji and hiragana. The kanji gaku (学) means learn, and gakusei means student, which makes sense. If you look at kanji and hiragana simultaneously, it will get easier to understand them. Best of luck my friend 🙏🏾
In second grade they learn twice as many new kanji😭By 6th grade they will have learned atleast 1,000 kanji
Indeed, it is really difficult for us.
That was so perfect. The lettering, the cam quality, the pen. I couldn't take my eyes away from the video during its entire duration.
I feel sad that my handwriting in Japanese and English are both horrible.
Please, practice, every now and then!
I'm Chinese so I'm good at both of them lol cuz both pinyin and characters were taught at school
Same for me, no matter what type of characters / alphabets, in any kind of languages, my handwriting is horrible as always. Even my hand signatures is so inconsistent, and is not really 100% the same in its shape every each time i draw my hand signature.
私も...
My handwriting in my native language, russian and latin letters as well is atrocious to the point where people ask me what words I wrote... I'm almost scared of writing kanji characters because I know it ain't gonna end well lmao
japanese: the kanji made of two squares means circle
circle: am I joke to you
XDDDD
@@johnSmith-jp5qg still, why not use circular shape? is it already meaning something else too? or does kanji can't have circle on them?
The squaration (ist this a real english word?!?) of the circle...
@@johnSmith-jp5qg very comprehensive explanation, thank you so much! :)
@@johnSmith-jp5qg My dude not to be rude, but circle pictographs and circle shapes are quite widely distributed and are found in 1 in 5 of all French caves. Source: Aurignacian Art c.40,000-25,000 BCE
0:07 right - migi
0:23 rain - ame
0:41 circle - en
0:53 king - oh
1:05 sound - oto
1:23 under - shita
1:32 fire - hi
1:45 flower - hana
2:02 shell - kai
If you asked about the pen: 17:48 min. The brand of pen is SARASA 1.0
Thx
Típico de quem não vê o vídeo todo e já sai pra perguntar hahaha. Obrigado.
simplified history of japanese :
oh haha chinese characters are now ours
let's make two new systems but use all three at once now
@Wisdom Pine link it please, i have no idea which one is it on your channel
zhangaloser actually the two new systems (hiragana and katakana) were naturally occurred as ancient Japanese tried to write letters easier, not like "let's make another system!(=ﾟωﾟ)"
Sorry for serious reply ^_^;
Wisdom Pine did
did u reply to every single comment here?
edit : that’s like 5.7 thousand :0
Truncheon37 ok
This guy: _writes 80 Kanji_
5.3 Million people: *interesting*
Writing the kanji helps me memorize them way easier. Plus handwriting notes is now an option. This video is super useful!
Japanese writer: makes a straight line effortless
Me trying to write ichi: *~* , */* , *\* ✍(◔◡◔)
Ni = ~~
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hahahaha xD......he is sooOooOOooOoOo good at making strait lines i wish i would do them like he does ;-;
Me -\_
me: |
Me: 8
Ok jk I can write it normally
I was half-expecting circle to be written as a circle lol
It would have come...full circle
You couldn’t be wrong to think that, since the kanji for mountain kinda looks like a mountain... My guess is maybe some millennia ago the Chinese character for circle was an actual circle, but they noticed all the other characters were square shaped, so they had to fix it to look good in a presentation and it just stuck.
meanwhile in china we write 圈 for circle😂
I feel like you'd run into problems with that. A circle can be a circle, bit it could also be the sun, or an eyeball, or an orange or a wheel, or a dinner plate. It just isn't descriptive enough.
Kanji Rules wouldn’t allow that. It’s not hangul ;-;. I want it as a circle tho..
No doubt the longest ball-pen ads I have ever seen
Zebra Sarasa Clip 1.0mm is good tho
00:00 一
00:08 右
00:23 雨
00:40 円
00:53 王
01:07 音
01:24 下
01:34 火
01:48 花
05:00 後
05:15 左
05:29 三
05:42 山
05:51 子
06:01 四
06:14 糸
06:30 字
06:45 耳
07:01 七
07:13 車
07:29 手
07:41 十
07:48 出
08:02 女
08:14 小
08:26 上
08:36 森
08:58 人
09:08 水
09:22 正
09:36 生
ok but imagine having to write an essay in Japanese on paper and actually writing fast- mad respect
Well, I take Chinese and I can tell you, your hands will feel like hell afterwards
@@justafrogwithahat355 can't even feel it anymore
@@rikyurii9047 Hands after a Chinese test: what is blood?
@@justafrogwithahat355 It's even worse when you write Traditional Chinese
i took extension japanese classes in high school where we actually did have to write essays on paper, in our final exam we were given 40 minutes to write 600ji (about 1 and a half pages of japanese boxed essay paper like you see in the video). it's not as fast as writing in english but since japanese uses a mix of kanji and kana it's not so bad. writing an essay in only chinese characters would be a different story though, RIP to the hands of all chinese language students.
I love how "tree" times two equals "woods", and "tree" times three equals "forest". JUST DRAW MORE TREES
as in 木，林，and 森?
In Chinese we mostly put 森 nd 林 together like this 森林
@ヴァ・サクラダ it means the exact same--
@ヴァ・サクラダ Well, kanji literally means “Chinese characters”, so it’s to be expected.
"Women" times 5 is "noisy" lmao
😂 Yeah sure
"English is hard."
Japan: "Hold my kana."
Chinese: Hold My Character
English is easiest language
@cold well Japanese isn’t just kanji
@cold yeah, Japan sent scholars to China to learn their language to input it to their own language. It’s not literally the same as Chinese though, some Chinese kanji doesn’t exist in Japanese and they both differ in the way you read them.
@@anonym3936 i before e except after c except when it sounds like “a” as in neighbor and weigh… and the list of exceptions goes on and on.
And don’t get me started on contract and contract, which are spelled the same but mean different things depending on how I say it.
Very nice hand-writing! I can't write that much clear and satisfied.
0:10 "권리" is correct translation, but, that kanji is the direction. So, "오른쪽" is the right translation. (If other Korean speaker noted, please ignore this comment.)
I'm not even learning Japanese right now because it's too complicated to do with college, I just really like watching this dude write
Me too
From someone who graduated from college - you will have a lot less time to learn a language after college
if you learned 2 kanji each day without forgetting them, you would have learned 750 characters in a year...
which makes 2190 in three years... so by the end of the college you would be "fluent" at kanji :DD
i mean would be able to read newspapers and manga
@@betulkorkut5215 well not exactly, your leaving out hiragana and katakana, which are used alongside kanji
@@SG-jc1pe I didnt expect someone to comment about hiragana and katakana before the issue of forgetting 😂
Spoiler: the pen was a paid actor
Lol
Lol
Hmmm...should have replace the "spoiler" with "fake"
Lol
LOL
I read this in chinese only to realized this is kanji. Makes sense why the pronunciation was different🤣
Ikr
Same, as a chinese, I learned most of these words in kindergarten 😂
SeriouslyNotReyes for me its all. the earlier you learn chinese character, the more you enjoy learning them.
@@hcrdfju4954 That's true, because when you learn languages or anything in general at a younger age, you tend to learn quicker and you will be more efficient in it.
I’m looking at this dude, wondering why he’s writing so damn slow
Just by one watching of the video, my kanji improved immensely, shame books don't use photos of real written symbols instead of fonts.
I am a spanish speaker learning english
youtube: lets send japanese writting lesson
Me too 😂😂
wishing you luck in your english learning journey! :)
Same here
All the best! :) One thing I can say is that grammar in English is a bit easier than in Spanish. Spelling though is another story... haha.
INTERESANTE
Bless the teachers who have to read the speedy written essays in Japanese
Westerners: You're and your is the same thing, right?
Japanese 6-year olds:
Or two, to, and too
Or their, there, they're
@@cadenc1a Or where, were, wear
Or ask and aks
@@cesarsales22 wtf is aks
or been, bean and bin
Thank you, at last I can learn how to really write the kanji forming all the strokes properly, makes it all click into place in my mind, somehow… plus it is such a joy to simply watch this, it’s like watching a performance of beauty and flawless grace…. 💖
Once i had a guide about interpreting Japanese Kanji. As far as I remember...
0:03 one, it means one equals one stroke or stick. 0:20 the crossed lines represent a hand and the square is a mouth "The hand you use to eat". 0:35 a cloud and rain falling from it. 0:52 a circle, but due to the squareness of kanji, is drawn that way. 1:20 the sun is represented by the small square under a pictograph of a man standing up resembling the sense of awakeness and the sound of things in the morning. 1:30 the upper line represents the ground and the lower draw represents something beneath.1:41 that's the shape of fire 2:31 a small boy receiving stuff or knowledge into his head and a hand is putting it inside his 3:10 the left draw is a radical for "man" and the left one is a tree " a man resting over a tree". 3:40 a metal that shines even inside a house.4:57 an open mouth. 5:24 a hand handling some sort of tool or a rule "The hand you use to grab something for work". 5:38 tree strokes or sticks. 5:48 the simplest way to draw a mountain. 5:59 a little boy that has to be cared in arms.7:27 The simplest representation of a carriage, today's is used for cars as well. 7:46 two arms crossing one over the other, every arm has a hand and every hand has five fingers.. 7:59 a sapling or a plant sprouting form the ground. 8:12 "a woman is the one who can create a new life from inside" or "can be pregnant". 8:34 the lower line is the ground and the upper draw is a plant. 8:55 "a forest is comprised of many trees". 9.06 " a man". 10:13 "the waxing moon behind a mountain". 10:25 a hand grabbing a stone. 10:43 Fire from beneath the ground.11:04 a water flow. 11:32 the sun too close to the horizon at dawn. 12:33 a man with his arms wide open.12:52 the force that works the rice paddies. 14:07 this is how a rice paddy looks like. 14:42 "a day" or "the sun" 16:12 also represents "origin". 16:27 a "mouth" calling out to somebody in the night -by his/her name-. Those are all I remember, please if I'm wrong, let me know PEACE..!
wow
王: I am a king
One tiny line: I’m about to end this mans whole career
A perfect Japanese handwriting doesn't exis-
韓国語でも書いてあるので本当に習いやすいです！！ ありがとうございます。(翻訳機を使っているのでぎこちないかもしれません。)
괜찮아, 저는 아라비아 사람 그리고 나는 한곡말을 조금 하다
and I'm trying so hard to write a sentence without using translation and I'm learning Japanese in the same time ,🙃💔
あなた は 正し です 私 は インド から 日本語 を 学 ぼう と してます but i still try
お韓国人
因为都是中文 😂
I am Arab too
me: trying to study geography before my exams
UA-cam: so what about hypnotic japanese handwriting videos?
最近开学的吃瓜来了
how did you do on the test?
replace that with history and yeah me too
Me but replace the geography with Hindi 😭👍
@@nolol9 as far as I remember the exam was really hard but the teacher gave most of us 100/100 to compensate :-)
I think the worst about kanjis is remembering the different readings for each kanjis 🤦🏾♀️
Yes
True some kanji’s look the same
@@アキ-d2e true some are hard to read im chinese but i was born and live in indonesia and i suck at chinese but i can read basic chinese symbols. Its actually not that hard.
@@edrick8797 i know some kanji’s that are not really hard like 木 水 火 etc.
@@アキ-d2e or 口
Fun fact: you can learn Japanese in this video, but Spanish and Korean too.
And arabic
And portuguese.
@@TristanBanks the arabic translations are kinda wrong tho haha, for example right (direction) is translated to right (as in right like law and all lol) the direction right in arabic is يمين
And English!
@@ヤスミン-h5r in Portuguese is wrong to, right is also used to serve as “correct”. Right in directions would be “direita.”
Thank you for translating the words into Arabic... I'm happy about that 🥺💖💖💖
حتى انا 😭😭وين وصلتي الآن ؟
This isn’t a language, this is art class
Thats how I feel everytime I see Japanese, Chinese or Korean. Such pretty written languages
@@supmaidoods8753 Except for Koreans, South Korea has abolished Chinese characters.
You do realize that that is kinda mean.
@@sapphire_music7080 it sounds like a compliment to me lol, like imagine your language using characters that look like art to some people, the english alphabet cant relate :')
@@sorakii-bw6hh I was talking about the guy that said South Korea has abolished Chinese characters
it disappoints me that the kanji for "circle" is made up entirely of squares and straight lines
Isn't 円 the kanji for yen?(Japanese currency)
@@ar9300 yeah but it means circle as well
@@altacc1807 oh ok ty
@@ar9300 np
@@johnSmith-jp5qg true
them: *so, Hiragana and Kanji is very easy right?*
me: の
edit: の= no (of)
いいえ= iie (no)
Hiragana and Katakana are pretty easy. Kanji is actually pretty easy too when you think about it
@@doublecircus yup, Hiragana and Katakana is really easy but what's hard is how you'll write it cause my handwriting sucks.:>
之
hahaha yess
@@doublecircus yeah in one day ive already gotten the hang of hiragana now im trying to master katakana! (* - *) although my methods consisted of writing each character more than 10 times after learning their sounds
Hallo! Ich komme aus Deutschland und finde deine Handschrift wunderschön! Du hast mich sogar dazu inspiriert, die wundervolle Sprache zu lernen!
What does a first grader’s handwriting look like? I doubt they do it this perfectly.
As a traditional Chinese user I would tell you it shouldn't be too good looking.
In fact, I am still not quite good at writing as an adult, either in Chinese or English
But still reconizable
It’s not hard for first graders to write like this.
If you are profecient in Chinese, or any language, every character, word or slang has a shape. When we read fast, our mind fills in the gaps, regardless of language. Same goes to kanji or Chinese. We take the general shape of the character and identify it through context. It would be painstakingly slow to read every single character as it is.
Don't underestimate asian kids
I'm learning Japanese by myself for almost a year now and I knew all these kanjis except 4 or 5. I really had to improve my handwriting, so thank you for this video. You take your time to write, so it is very easy to follow you. ありがとうございます！
😉😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆自主性的人可以選擇摩訶ㄧ切慈悲有情，有情世間。
Now i understand how americans feel when they see something foreign. It's fear mixed with having mind blown.
Your not wrong at all. Having gone to Switzerland and France and being able to speak a bit...but not understand the writing. Is a truely horrifying feeling, you feel as if you are the stupidest person alive or you feel like the world just got a whole lot harder to navigate.
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何か見るだけで癒されましたね。
I was thinking one day that when 木 is tree, 林 is woods, 森 if forest. 本 is a book and in my logic 本本 will be books and
本本本 will be library. Same as mori kanji but 3 horizontal lines added. :D
Btw that kanji drawing looks so cool. :)
blackheavyblans good idea but unluckily we asian don‘t use this charactor. In China we use “图（drawing）书（book，in traditional Chinese 書）馆（cultural or sports building）” or “圕（library）”
Thiago Cavalcante wood，wooder，woodest 😂
as a kid, my mum used to tell me stories to remember the characters. one of these stories was about a guy who learned how to write 1, 2, 3 (一二三) and for his coming of age ceremony, he had to write out his name, which had the character 100 (百) in it. thing is, he followed the increasing line pattern and ended up writing 100 strokes for his name
tell my wifi love her there is an old story in China：a guy learns 一 二 三 then he thinks he knows all. When he writes his wife‘s family name he finds that his wife’s family name is 万（means 10000）
Thiago Cavalcante and book booker bookest
Me: Alright I've memorized hiragana and katakana. Time for Kanji.
My Japanese Dictionary: *Displays over 2000 kanji* Ganbatte
Your Dictionary - Aah I see you have chosen a more difficult path
がんばれ！
俺の好きな漢字は「馨」だ！
I think that is the biggest mistake many of us make right from the start though. Letting ourselves get intimidated by the sheer amount of ALL kanji, instead of taking it a bit of the time. The video itself says 80 kanji for FIRST graders, in other words, Japanese children aren't learning all 2000 at once either.
がんばれ! You can do it!!
@@PrismCasillica Is there a difference between "ganbatte" and "ganbare"?
I got shitty handwriting in English. If I was Japanese I'd be jailed.
Why would you go to jail
lol😂
@@joebastianich3410 for dishonourable actions against the empire. Why else?
Believe me, In general, kanji is much harder to look shitty compare to other writing systems. Because It has aesthetic design by it's nature, its pretty much impossible to fuck it up so hard to make it look ugly.
@@korean6706 Hold my beer. :)
You added each of the translations!! I always wanted this lol and never saw it before. Super cool!
Ichi: "perfect for 1st grade"
Migi: "how do I write it again...?"
With your migi hand 👀
Disgaea people. Hmmmm how rare
IDC ニ means two in kanji and three is a 三…but four is a 四🙄
何かに気づいたヌマクロー
What’s even more frustrating is that when you write it, the 四 has five strokes while 五 has four.
@@marquisjackson3054 at least 五 resembles the arabic number 😂
Others struggle with the writing while us Chinese would struggle with the pronunciation. When I see 下，my instincts take over and I say _xià_ instead of _shita_
same xd
im not even a native chinese speaker, but ive been learning mandarin for about 6 months now
im nowhere near proficient but i can still recognise quite a lot of kanji, so i keep messing up the pronounciation because i started learning chinese first lol
I always hear about that difficulty for Chinese speakers, and I'm just wondering if that could be me someday😂 After watching one C-drama I mixed up simple stuff like zhong and naka, but it did get me more interested in Chinese :) Maybe I'll not get ahead of myself and continue with Japanese first :3
I wish this would be my only problem lmfo
The funny thing starts when there‘re more than 2 readings
omg same
This is the first time I see stuff translated to Arabic. It was so nice to see! Also this video is literally free therapy
Yeah but some of the translation are wrong
@@mika_7846 late but, kanji is hard to translate, ame can mean “rain, rainy, raining”, some kanji like 日 mean multiple things, that kanji is used as a day counter and so much more
@@emsub1199 this is really old but if i remember right i was talking about the arabic teanslation it was really off in some words lol should have been more precise my bad
Before watching:" it's hard"
When watching:" hey, it's simple"
After watching:" it's hard"
Japanese: we need to develop a writing system.
Some guy: it must be hard as fuck to memorize and words should take forever to write down.
Japanese: seems legit.
They didn't develop this writing system though
@@brandon.h9624 I know, I was just making a joke.
I'm in tears laughing at this for 3 minutes 😂
@@brandon.h9624 i think most of people know
i refuse to believe this isnt how it happened
Wait just a minute, I haven't even learned Hiragana.
Lol Mister Hiragana and Madam Katakana first then the Sir Kanji
Same
So is kanji boss level
I just learned hiragana and katakana, I also know half of this kanji, I'm italian and I speak English and German, japanese is almost impossible
Cristina Elia Ive recently taken the plunge into kanji but I know a arduous journey is ahead of me, I only know spanish and English sorry if you didn’t care or I’m a bother I just wanted to share something to you
Let's all appreciate that he wrote the translation to each kanji in 6 different languages
I DIDN'T EVEM NOTICE WTF!
It's incorrect with Korean and Arabic at times.
A lot of them aren’t very accurate btu it’s still appreciated jvnfjfj
Most of them are wrong. It’s just English words thrown into Google Translate
What's funny is that if you translate to Chinese it's the same characters and same meaning
Today I passed a Japanese language exam. My level is determined so I can join to a proper class for me. Thanks to your videos that I could write hiragana more properly. Still I have to practise a lot because it is not easy to forget old learnings. But from now on, I will follow your channel's videos and my teachers' guidance. I just wanted to show that how you helped me. Still, I do not have courage to write in Japanese. Not yet :)
“Right” (as in right and left) in Portuguese isn’t “certo” it’s direito. Certo means “okay”, but from what I see the character “right” is for directions.
Same for the Spanish translation as well. I don't speak much Spanish but "derecho" is certainly "right" meaning the direction.
@@juztkei the traslation for "right" would be "derecha" not "derecho" if we're talking about directions. "Derecho" means "straight" in the same context
@@gianellagonzalez2617 really? Thanks!
being a Chinese and trying to learn kanji is so hard my brain is just full of mandrin when I look at kanji
Kathryn Khoo You learn the pronunciation much faster when you listen more to it.
My brain is full of my hometown dialect when I look at them not mandarin lol
Botanic cat What was it? Let's see if we speak the same dialect.
Kathryn Khoo try being an English and learning kanji
@@salazar7274 its not as easy as it seems, I also sometimes read kanji in chinese lol
This is so relaxing to watch, you're so good at this
HIs penmanship is so beautiful, it is truly art. Watching him write is actually therapeutic, relaxing and enjoyable for me.
Thank you for translating this in arabic that so helpful!
本当に ありがとう ございます！🥺💗💗
I never thought handwritten characters could be so attractive 🤩❣️
I literally neither understand anything nor have the intention too learn this ... But its kinda comfortable to look like an ASMR
I don’t know why but seeing the Spanish words helped a lot! Thanks for the content!!
Please continue this series! 日本語を勉強しています。ありがとう！