About the MochiMochi App - Download link for iOS, Android, or website version: kanji.mochidemy.com/ - Join MochiMochi facebook group: facebook.com/groups/27477... 1:13 Names and Kanji 2:27 Three Writing Systems (Scripts) in Japanese 2:35 When to use Hiragana 3:42 Okurigana 4:57 What is Kanji? When to use Kanji 5:25 On-yomi & Kun-yomi 6:35 When to use Katakana 7:23 Moon + Ocean = Jellyfish? 9:27 Jukujikun 14:25 Visual learner vs Auditory learner 14:55 Spaced Repetition & Mochi Mochi App 17:22 Color Coding Technique 17:32 What is "radical"? (bushu) 21:33 Circle a part 24:05 Should you learn stroke orders? 26:51 For Auditory Learners 29:00 Contextual learning 30:43 Motivation
Misa Ive been a fan of yours for a long time and my name is Christian Moore. But ive always wanted to be able to write it in kanji but didnt know the right characters to use and I didnt know how so I was wondering if you could help me. Know what that name would be in Kanji I would really appreciate it.
I've been watching your videos for over 4 years now. My Japanese still sucks but the amount of things you've taught me through all these years have been priceless. I quit many times, I lost motivation and even felt like giving up, but I never forgot the basics I learned with you, and that's what has always made me return to learn a little more. I just hope you know you're really appreciated by us, your audience. Your hard work and selfless teachings had made a change for many of us, and I admire you for that. みさ先生、教えてくれてありがとうございます
Well said! Keep at it. I've been learning for 3 years now with a wonderful iTalki 先生。And Misa has always been my number 1 most inspirational and professional online UA-cam 先生。I'm sure my interest in 日本語 would have waned and stopped long ago had it not been for her wonderful videos. So, many thanks Misa! I will stick with my adventures in Japanese, despite the fact I'm inevitably about to flump my JLPT N4 exam for the second time this Sunday! 😅🤣 *** Note to self : watch even MORE JapaneseAmmo videos! ***
Good advice. As someone who has studied kanji for years and is still learning I especially agree with the advice to learn them as words and not individually. Trying to individually learn kanji meanings and readings is a quick way to insanity or stroke! Another good video Misa-san.
I learned them individually with the meaning and one reading. Introducing them and then reviewing the flash cards around 150 at a time you can do 10 reviews or as many as you like the meaning sticks with a extremely small amount of effort you just are able to recall the meaning like magic after some time making it a lot easier to attempt to read new words and understanding them before even learning them making watching UA-cam a lot more enjoyable because even if you don’t understand the sentence you can still pick out some meaning and it’s more engaging and memorable to study.
"Trying to individually learn kanji meanings and readings is a quick way to insanity or stroke!" so true man i was overwhelmed one time i was trying to learn kanji meanings but this helped me so yeah thx Misa-san
This is exactly what I needed right now! I’m taking my Kanji studies much more serious and the difference when to use 音読みと訓読み helped me so much! ありがとうございます
My favorite part of learning kanji is some of the "Wow!" moments when I realize how a word originating in Japanese that I've already known all my life, is built from kanji that I am learning without realizing the connection right away. Words like "Typhoon", "Emoji", "Kabuki", "Tsunami" etc.
I was just done with the Kanji series, then saw the notification from this video. All your videos are really amazing and have helped many people. Thanks for always keeping me motivated and for being amazing! ありがとうございます!
Hi Misa. All these years that I have been living in Japan I have seen many youtubers instructing people on kanjis what they are how they work etc etc, but you are absolutely the only one that says things as they are. All you say make absolute sense and I cannot fault you in any way. In fact it is more about how sensible you thinking is than anything else. Too many people talking nonsense out there so much so that I am in shock that I agree with everything you say. This actually never happens... 😂 you made my day (in fact not even a good one, thanks for that BTW...)
I'm relieved to hear you say that stroke order really doesn't matter depending on goals, like just reading Japanese. I always feared that by writing a Kanji in the wrong way, I was disappointing the spirit of some Japanese ghost-man, but writing a kanji helps me remember the shape itself. Only thing that still gets me is seeing a kanji in the wild and not recognizing it because of the font it is in.
I think that actually knowing the proper stroke order helps with recognizing kanji in different fonts... well, if they're weighted. If it's some weird geometric ones, then that doesn't help lol (I played a game and all the characters were, like, square-y??? big ew!). But for weighted fonts, you can see how the strokes went and if you know the stroke order, you can "translate" it to a normal font, if that makes sense.
Mochi Mochi is a good and cute app 🤗 . It took me only two weeks to memorize all N5 minna no nihongo vocabulary in the app that I didn't believe I couldn't do before. I knew the app from my classmate and now from you. Thank you for explaining the app, now I truly understand how it works. 👍👍
Thank you, Misa, another excellent video. For many westerners, learning Kanjis can be a big challenge. My study of Japanese has definitely been slowed by the difficulty of learning to read kanji symbols, but videos like yours are a big help.
I wouldn't say stroke order is fun, but I think that for beginners, it does teach how a kanji is structured (especially complex kanji) as usually the stroke order makes you write a kanji component by component. Also, by handwriting a kanji, we pay more attention to the components it is made of. I found it also usually leads to better memorization and regognition when reading. Athough at first stroke order is not intuitive, with some practice, we kind of guess the correct stroke order of most kanjis (we can be wrong sometimes though). 😉😅
I think stroke orders are pointless. We live in a digital society and most of us type on a phone or computer day to day. As long as you know what a kanji means and looks like when you type in the word you’re fine. And if you do wanna learn to write kanji, then just write it. My kanji look exactly how they should and I don’t pay attention to everyone try stroke order. As long as the end result is the same, it doesn’t matter. Most people aren’t gonna get into Japanese calligraphy
@@FransceneJK98 You're right, not everyone will get into Japanese calligraphy, and I'm personally not interested in it. Actually, stroke order wasn't devised solely for calligraphy. In Japan, teachers and calligraphy masters had arguments while trying to establish a correct stroke order, as their perspectives differed. Additionally, the guidance that settled the stroke order and now serves de facto as a norm is relatively new (it was published in 1957). It was intended to provide a step-by-step method for writing kanji and to ensure consistent visual results regardless of who is writing. Does that mean nobody would be able to read what you wrote if you haven't followed the correct stroke order? Of course not! I'm sure you learned at school a way to write every letter of the alphabet that you don't follow anymore (when you have the opportunity to write by hand, that is).Paying attention to the structure of a kanji (following the correct stroke order will generally allow you to do that) while handwriting it both enhances your level of engagement and trains your procedural memory. Also, when I refer to writing by hand, I don't mean writing pages and pages of the same isolated kanji with or without all its various readings. I did this when I started to learn Japanese, and it didn't work for me. What I mean is writing complete words encountered while reading Japanese content, along with their contextual reading and meaning, 2 or 3 times. This way, you will train your brain to recognize and understand these specific words more quickly, enhancing the fluency of your reading. That being said, if you already know all the jōyō kanji and the vocabulary based on these kanji, handwriting for reasons other than enjoyment probably won't improve things significantly.
This is such a good timing for a video like this! I was only studying verb conjugation/grammar at first before I wanted to start learning kanji. I started learning kanji 2 days ago after feeling comfortable with my grammar so this came out on the perfect time 😊
ありがとうございます! すごい！Most Japanese language learners struggle with Kanji because of the main point to this video, kanji are better for reading commonly used words like proper nouns but are complicated when used for everyday conversation words.
ミサ先生、教えてくれてありがとうございました！！ It's the first time I write a comment on this channel but I should have done this sooner because god knows how it helped me to get through this difficult journey that is learning japanese. I must admit that I was bit reluctant at first to watch your videos. I found that many teachers out there rely on their image to attract viewers while the content is really not that great. But boy I was dead wrong. Once I watched one of your videos, I couldn't take my eyes off of it. Not only are you gorgeous but you are also amazing at teaching and I've watched all your beginner videos. And I cannot stress this enough but you played a big part in the reason that I still learn Japanese nowadays. I joined a Japanese class last year and the first thing the students told me is that they love your videos. This video is amazing, as well. I believe there might have been a mix up in the kanji 誰 marked as "difficult" but I may be wrong. In any case, I hope life gives you as much as you give to your students. Your faithful viewer,
I believe that another very useful way to learn kanji is to read simple texts with furigana, and memorize not single kanjis, but _words._ In the end, we learn kanji to be able to read Japanese. :)
Understanding the basics of kanji is like unlocking a secret code! Radicals and composition play a key role, and this video explains it all with a sprinkle of awesomeness! 🕵♂🔍🎩
Hello Misa 先生! Nice seeing you again. You answered important questions I had. No need to mention that your video was crucial. Listening to you helps me gain insight into the Japanese language. Even the most excruciating part of this language seems affordable with you. Thank you for everything!
Japanese has so much more word play due to the complexity of kanji and their radicals, but one of my favorites in English is the word "bed" looking like an actual bed (The b and d look like headboards of a bed)
About the stroke order: I'm a visual learner but I also like the muscle memory approach. Studies have shown that you internalize things better when you write them out so for me it's absolutely essential to "draw" the kanji. That way I can also get better by doing mistakes, which encourages and motivates me to improve my skills and learn more. This is a great explanation, I learned a lot because you explained the diffrent approaches very simple and understandable, thanks so much!
Yesterday I was thinking about watch any of your videos just to take my grammar's studies back! And such in good timing you released a new video! You ain't got no idea how much your channel helped me through the pandemic
The Mochi Mochi App is like a friendly kanji mentor, guiding us through the learning process with its awesome features! Can't wait to give it a try! 🌟📚📱
Thank Misa for your experience and positive reviews about the app. We hope your UA-cam channel would achieve more success with the educational values that you have been bringing to the Japanese learning community 😊
Just been to Japan for a month, your complete beginner's video helped me a great deal. Thanks and looking forward to more great contents. (obviously I need to catch up with your lessons over the past few years first)
After 3-months using Mochi mochi, I'm happy to say that it's a amazing app that helped me a lottt in memorizing Kanji and vocab. Thank you again for sharing this app.
Stroke order is really handy because it puts emphasis on that most kanji is composed of other kanji. As a result, it's not really stroke order you remember but kanji order. Once you get that, then writing and reading kanji is much easier as you develop muscle memory
i'm using mochimochi while listening to you 😍it's a good app and i really loved this vedio especially the sea moon and big person and ground dragon and the other ones it made so much sense to me and is so fun to discover those ....i actually went and looked up the kanji radicals and there are 214 i just wrote down the important most frequent once and they are just 52 not that much it's just so funny that when you find a kanji and are familiar with the radical you say oh i know this one it give you a satisfaying kind of feeling ❤❤❤❤❤ anyway a golden vedio as always and i don't know but i guess you became thinier please take care of yourself misa san we love you ❣❣❣❣
YAY!! Welcome back (five months ago 🙃 - I blame my tardiness on the YT algorithm). Anyway. looking forward to your pithy, witty, and highly useful videos! 😀
ever since i started watching Misa awhile back my Japanese has improved so much Like for real she is 100% top 3 best Japanese teachers on UA-cam. She cant make you rememorize it, you gotta put in your own practice but she always has such useful information that helps you develop a better understanding of the language. I had no idea that the reason for 今日 being kyo was because the hiragana word was preestablished before the Kanji that 3 minute section like literarily blew my mind cuss in all my 3 years of studying Japanese i never knew that that was a thing in kanji. now i know that tho next time i study kanji and am like why the hell is this word spelled with these kanji ill know the reason because of Misa telling her audience things that alot of other teachers would overlook. It also helps with remembering too because you know why its like that. So ya thats my rant lol also big thanks to Misa for doing this for so long🙏🙏 the dedication is real🔥
The way that I learned black 黒 kuro is 里 looks like a window and windowsill and the four lines beneath is the same radical as fire 火 so think of a fire burning beneath a window and burning the windowsill BLACK with soot and ash.
I've always struggled with Kanji. When I lived in Japan for about a year I learned somewhat well how to make myself understood while speaking. Generally I'd just go out to a bar or a Izakaya, get hammered and talk to the owner. That part was easy. But having to sit down and memorize thousands of Kanji is just something that my ADHD riddled brain is always going to struggle with. Hopefully once I get my ADHD medicine it will get easier, but you never know.
Just found this video and its an instant sub from me. This was very helpful to prepare my approach to kanji soon. Thank you very much! q.q I will definately follow more in the future as i keep on my journey of learning japanese
Thanks for this. I have been slowly tinkering with Kanji and would like to believe I know like 60 odd so far, but of course, the greater ability to use and apply that knowledge is way harder!
Seeing this video reminded me to continue learning japanese through your videos. Your videos are truly amazing and have helped me ALOT with my Japanese. Your videos are unmatched and I hope you keep on creating them in the future! ありがとう、私の大好きな日本語の先生！ (I hope there isn't anything wrong with that sentence, if there is please correct me)
I would think you could omit the 私, often when describing something as "liked" or "loved" it's implied that you're describing your own feelings. I could be wrong tho
I tried memorizing N5 kanjis for several months and maybe memorized 15 or 20 (and then forgot). Then I understood that I'm not a very visual guy. Memorizing squiggles is not my strength. Writing them down 10 times in a row - I will probably hurt someone near me. I tried Heisig Remembering the Kanji book, where the author groups the kanjis by radicals and other pieces. He also suggests using mnemonics and mini-stories for the pieces of kanjis which is amazing for auditory learners. With this approach I learned the meanings and writings (NOT readings!!) of 1000 kanjis in 4 months, because each subsequent kanji reinforced the kanjis I learned before. I know that a lot of people finish Heisig's book (2300 kanjis) in 3 months, which is completely insane. Instead of memorizing squiggles, i memorize stories, and it seems to work really well for me (about 93% recall). Occasionally I stop adding kanjis in Heisig order and add some N5, N4, N3 kanjis, so that it's easier to follow subtitles in TV shows. Then I return to Heisig's order because this way the remembering process is so much faster. The readings? I don't care about the readings, they come from words. The readings of the kanjis is such a big mess that it's pointless to try to memorize them in isolation. Try Heisig's book if you feel that repetitively writing kanjis down does not work for you. If your imagination works well, you will learn kanji in 3 months.
@@matzekatze7500 it may be relatively bad if you have good visual memory and can learn faster without mnemonics. That's certainly not my case. Without Heisig, I would still be stressed out about the N5 kanjis and mix up "tree", "person" and "big" :D
@@ganqqwerty I personally just don't like the concept of learnign mnemocis that oftentimes have nothing to do with the actual meaning of the Kanji. I rather just learn words.
@@matzekatze7500 well, you're saying that because you're capable of doing that in a reasonable time without getting pissed off. If I see a word that consists of two or more kanji I don't know, there is no way I learn it without some mnemonic tricks... well maybe I will learn it, but it will take too much time and I will end up hating everybody.
"Jukujikun" is a word not usually found on the tip on one's tongue, but it is a subset of the ateji readings. (Most learners will be more familiar with that term).
I am struggling with my kanji. I can read n write in hiragana n katakana(not very good though). I think practice writing is good n also learn through singing karaoke. But i can 't write but can recognize the word. But i never give up learning because Japanese is a beautiful language. I love everything Japan - from its culture, beautiful country, its people very polite, its music etc.., thank you for recommending the app, I'll try it and let you know if it works
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1:13 Names and Kanji
2:27 Three Writing Systems (Scripts) in Japanese
2:35 When to use Hiragana
3:42 Okurigana
4:57 What is Kanji? When to use Kanji
5:25 On-yomi & Kun-yomi
6:35 When to use Katakana
7:23 Moon + Ocean = Jellyfish?
9:27 Jukujikun
14:25 Visual learner vs Auditory learner
14:55 Spaced Repetition & Mochi Mochi App
17:22 Color Coding Technique
17:32 What is "radical"? (bushu)
21:33 Circle a part
24:05 Should you learn stroke orders?
26:51 For Auditory Learners
29:00 Contextual learning
30:43 Motivation
Misa Ive been a fan of yours for a long time and my name is Christian Moore. But ive always wanted to be able to write it in kanji but didnt know the right characters to use and I didnt know how so I was wondering if you could help me. Know what that name would be in Kanji I would really appreciate it.
Thank you for your recommendation. It's very useful for me 😍
thank you for your recommendation, sensei, I love your videos and your channels so much. I hope that you could make more video like this
Thank you Misa^^
thanks so much
I've been watching your videos for over 4 years now. My Japanese still sucks but the amount of things you've taught me through all these years have been priceless. I quit many times, I lost motivation and even felt like giving up, but I never forgot the basics I learned with you, and that's what has always made me return to learn a little more.
I just hope you know you're really appreciated by us, your audience. Your hard work and selfless teachings had made a change for many of us, and I admire you for that.
みさ先生、教えてくれてありがとうございます
Well said! Keep at it. I've been learning for 3 years now with a wonderful iTalki 先生。And Misa has always been my number 1 most inspirational and professional online UA-cam 先生。I'm sure my interest in 日本語 would have waned and stopped long ago had it not been for her wonderful videos. So, many thanks Misa! I will stick with my adventures in Japanese, despite the fact I'm inevitably about to flump my JLPT N4 exam for the second time this Sunday! 😅🤣 *** Note to self : watch even MORE JapaneseAmmo videos! ***
Good advice. As someone who has studied kanji for years and is still learning I especially agree with the advice to learn them as words and not individually. Trying to individually learn kanji meanings and readings is a quick way to insanity or stroke! Another good video Misa-san.
I learned them individually with the meaning and one reading. Introducing them and then reviewing the flash cards around 150 at a time you can do 10 reviews or as many as you like the meaning sticks with a extremely small amount of effort you just are able to recall the meaning like magic after some time making it a lot easier to attempt to read new words and understanding them before even learning them making watching UA-cam a lot more enjoyable because even if you don’t understand the sentence you can still pick out some meaning and it’s more engaging and memorable to study.
I meant flash cards and spaced repetition and speed reviews to run through a large amount of them quickly and multiple times.
"Trying to individually learn kanji meanings and readings is a quick way to insanity or stroke!" so true man i was overwhelmed one time i was trying to learn kanji meanings but this helped me so yeah thx Misa-san
@@AidanMcdonald-cf6rv You learned all meaning and reading plus stokes.
I think everyone even Japanese people are still learning kanji
This is exactly what I needed right now! I’m taking my Kanji studies much more serious and the difference when to use 音読みと訓読み helped me so much! ありがとうございます
My favorite part of learning kanji is some of the "Wow!" moments when I realize how a word originating in Japanese that I've already known all my life, is built from kanji that I am learning without realizing the connection right away. Words like "Typhoon", "Emoji", "Kabuki", "Tsunami" etc.
As a Kanji beginner I just discovered your day 1 to 6 kanji videos from 2 years ago, so happy you're still teaching as you are very good 🙂
I was just done with the Kanji series, then saw the notification from this video. All your videos are really amazing and have helped many people. Thanks for always keeping me motivated and for being amazing! ありがとうございます!
ありがとうございます ;-;
Yes, your video on kanji is very timely and much appreciated. Thanks Misa sensei! 😊
いつも、沢山の日本語の勉強が助けられるありがとうございます。みさ先生の動画からあたしいっぱい覚えてるんだ。
Hi Misa. All these years that I have been living in Japan I have seen many youtubers instructing people on kanjis what they are how they work etc etc, but you are absolutely the only one that says things as they are. All you say make absolute sense and I cannot fault you in any way. In fact it is more about how sensible you thinking is than anything else. Too many people talking nonsense out there so much so that I am in shock that I agree with everything you say. This actually never happens... 😂 you made my day (in fact not even a good one, thanks for that BTW...)
Thanks
I'm relieved to hear you say that stroke order really doesn't matter depending on goals, like just reading Japanese. I always feared that by writing a Kanji in the wrong way, I was disappointing the spirit of some Japanese ghost-man, but writing a kanji helps me remember the shape itself.
Only thing that still gets me is seeing a kanji in the wild and not recognizing it because of the font it is in.
I think that actually knowing the proper stroke order helps with recognizing kanji in different fonts... well, if they're weighted. If it's some weird geometric ones, then that doesn't help lol (I played a game and all the characters were, like, square-y??? big ew!). But for weighted fonts, you can see how the strokes went and if you know the stroke order, you can "translate" it to a normal font, if that makes sense.
Mochi Mochi is a good and cute app 🤗 . It took me only two weeks to memorize all N5 minna no nihongo vocabulary in the app that I didn't believe I couldn't do before. I knew the app from my classmate and now from you. Thank you for explaining the app, now I truly understand how it works. 👍👍
Thank you, Misa, another excellent video. For many westerners, learning Kanjis can be a big challenge. My study of Japanese has definitely been slowed by the difficulty of learning to read kanji symbols, but videos like yours are a big help.
Have been using MochiMochi for 2 years and I love it so so much!!!! I love its cute interface & flashcards. Now I learned more than 3000 words ^^
nice! good work :)
Does it have a dark mode?
I wouldn't say stroke order is fun, but I think that for beginners, it does teach how a kanji is structured (especially complex kanji) as usually the stroke order makes you write a kanji component by component. Also, by handwriting a kanji, we pay more attention to the components it is made of. I found it also usually leads to better memorization and regognition when reading. Athough at first stroke order is not intuitive, with some practice, we kind of guess the correct stroke order of most kanjis (we can be wrong sometimes though). 😉😅
I think stroke orders are pointless. We live in a digital society and most of us type on a phone or computer day to day. As long as you know what a kanji means and looks like when you type in the word you’re fine. And if you do wanna learn to write kanji, then just write it. My kanji look exactly how they should and I don’t pay attention to everyone try stroke order. As long as the end result is the same, it doesn’t matter. Most people aren’t gonna get into Japanese calligraphy
@@FransceneJK98 You're right, not everyone will get into Japanese calligraphy, and I'm personally not interested in it. Actually, stroke order wasn't devised solely for calligraphy. In Japan, teachers and calligraphy masters had arguments while trying to establish a correct stroke order, as their perspectives differed. Additionally, the guidance that settled the stroke order and now serves de facto as a norm is relatively new (it was published in 1957). It was intended to provide a step-by-step method for writing kanji and to ensure consistent visual results regardless of who is writing. Does that mean nobody would be able to read what you wrote if you haven't followed the correct stroke order? Of course not! I'm sure you learned at school a way to write every letter of the alphabet that you don't follow anymore (when you have the opportunity to write by hand, that is).Paying attention to the structure of a kanji (following the correct stroke order will generally allow you to do that) while handwriting it both enhances your level of engagement and trains your procedural memory. Also, when I refer to writing by hand, I don't mean writing pages and pages of the same isolated kanji with or without all its various readings. I did this when I started to learn Japanese, and it didn't work for me. What I mean is writing complete words encountered while reading Japanese content, along with their contextual reading and meaning, 2 or 3 times. This way, you will train your brain to recognize and understand these specific words more quickly, enhancing the fluency of your reading. That being said, if you already know all the jōyō kanji and the vocabulary based on these kanji, handwriting for reasons other than enjoyment probably won't improve things significantly.
This is such a good timing for a video like this! I was only studying verb conjugation/grammar at first before I wanted to start learning kanji. I started learning kanji 2 days ago after feeling comfortable with my grammar so this came out on the perfect time 😊
ありがとうございます! すごい！Most Japanese language learners struggle with Kanji because of the main point to this video, kanji are better for reading commonly used words like proper nouns but are complicated when used for everyday conversation words.
damn im blown away, sounds like you have an aussie accent when speaking english then when you speak japanese it sounds so pure and natural.
Glad you have uploaded new videos. Love your sense of humor.
i love how at the end you emphasize having fun, that's so important
ありがとうございます。
ミサ先生、教えてくれてありがとうございました！！
It's the first time I write a comment on this channel but I should have done this sooner because god knows how it helped me to get through this difficult journey that is learning japanese.
I must admit that I was bit reluctant at first to watch your videos. I found that many teachers out there rely on their image to attract viewers while the content is really not that great. But boy I was dead wrong. Once I watched one of your videos, I couldn't take my eyes off of it. Not only are you gorgeous but you are also amazing at teaching and I've watched all your beginner videos. And I cannot stress this enough but you played a big part in the reason that I still learn Japanese nowadays. I joined a Japanese class last year and the first thing the students told me is that they love your videos.
This video is amazing, as well. I believe there might have been a mix up in the kanji 誰 marked as "difficult" but I may be wrong.
In any case, I hope life gives you as much as you give to your students.
Your faithful viewer,
I really love your content Misa, I intend to learn Japanese and your advice broadens my mind. Thank you Miejie so much.
2:21 Tite Kubo, the mangaka for Bleach, actually established in one of the chapters in his series that Ichigo's name means, "the one who protects".
I believe that another very useful way to learn kanji is to read simple texts with furigana, and memorize not single kanjis, but _words._ In the end, we learn kanji to be able to read Japanese. :)
Exactly what helped me 👍
Good to see you making videos on the channel, Misa!
Understanding the basics of kanji is like unlocking a secret code! Radicals and composition play a key role, and this video explains it all with a sprinkle of awesomeness! 🕵♂🔍🎩
Thank for being with us after 4 year misa ... If I forget something I just go back to your channel then watch it again and again ... ❤️
Hello Misa 先生!
Nice seeing you again.
You answered important questions I had. No need to mention that your video was crucial.
Listening to you helps me gain insight into the Japanese language.
Even the most excruciating part of this language seems affordable with you.
Thank you for everything!
I love this girl, it's very easy to learn Japanese with her videos and it's always heartwarming to listen and watch them ゆっくりで
I’m glad you’re back after the tough time you seem to have been through! Be Strong! 👍🏽🙏🏼💕
Welcome back Misa Sensei
Japanese has so much more word play due to the complexity of kanji and their radicals, but one of my favorites in English is the word "bed" looking like an actual bed (The b and d look like headboards of a bed)
I am a native English speaker and I have never realized that lol, that's cool
About the stroke order: I'm a visual learner but I also like the muscle memory approach. Studies have shown that you internalize things better when you write them out so for me it's absolutely essential to "draw" the kanji.
That way I can also get better by doing mistakes, which encourages and motivates me to improve my skills and learn more.
This is a great explanation, I learned a lot because you explained the diffrent approaches very simple and understandable, thanks so much!
Yesterday I was thinking about watch any of your videos just to take my grammar's studies back! And such in good timing you released a new video! You ain't got no idea how much your channel helped me through the pandemic
The Mochi Mochi App is like a friendly kanji mentor, guiding us through the learning process with its awesome features! Can't wait to give it a try! 🌟📚📱
Love to see a new lesson from you, you are my favourite japanese teacher (:
Thank Misa for your experience and positive reviews about the app. We hope your UA-cam channel would achieve more success with the educational values that you have been bringing to the Japanese learning community 😊
like it!
love your app
love Mochi
I like Mochi
Thanks Mochi
Thank you for making these. I'm finally in a study abroad program in Japan and your lessons have been of immense help in getting here.
Just been to Japan for a month, your complete beginner's video helped me a great deal. Thanks and looking forward to more great contents. (obviously I need to catch up with your lessons over the past few years first)
After 3-months using Mochi mochi, I'm happy to say that it's a amazing app that helped me a lottt in memorizing Kanji and vocab. Thank you again for sharing this app.
Stroke order is really handy because it puts emphasis on that most kanji is composed of other kanji. As a result, it's not really stroke order you remember but kanji order. Once you get that, then writing and reading kanji is much easier as you develop muscle memory
Great video, as always. ありがとうございました 先生 !
お帰りみさ先生。
教えてくれてありがとうございます。✌️
おかえりなさい。レッスンをありがとうございますみさせんせい。実は今日本にいます。I've been trying really hard to use what I've learned. I think your lessons helped 👍.
Helpful, thanks a lot!
I learnt hiragana and katakana with help of your lessons, and now it's time for kanji ;)
these colors are aesthetically pleasing
Words of wisdom! 💛
I learned the stroke order because (I found that fun and) it helped me remember long kanji.
みさ先生はいい先生です！ ありがとうございます！
I started learning Japanese a couple weeks ago and you've been incredibly helpful along the way, 10/10 content.
As ALWAYS an amazing class!!! Thank YOU, Misa! 🙏💜
Im back and ready to study!
i'm using mochimochi while listening to you 😍it's a good app and i really loved this vedio especially the sea moon and big person and ground dragon and the other ones it made so much sense to me and is so fun to discover those ....i actually went and looked up the kanji radicals and there are 214 i just wrote down the important most frequent once and they are just 52 not that much it's just so funny that when you find a kanji and are familiar with the radical you say oh i know this one it give you a satisfaying kind of feeling ❤❤❤❤❤ anyway a golden vedio as always and i don't know but i guess you became thinier please take care of yourself misa san we love you ❣❣❣❣
Misa I love you! Yay love to see you back in videos and love your UA-cams. Thanks love you
Thank you for recommending the Mochi Mochi app! It seems very helpful in my studies.
YAY!! Welcome back (five months ago 🙃 - I blame my tardiness on the YT algorithm). Anyway. looking forward to your pithy, witty, and highly useful videos! 😀
MochiMochi is a lovely app!! highly recommend for thoose who're busy but want to learn Japanese fast
It's good to see you again. I missed you, Misa. I hope I can find the appropriate books to learn all three types of writing in Japanese.
Many thanks, Misa-san! I really needed this!
wow. by far the best and more interesting Japanese "lesson" I've seen so far. Thank you 🙏
I've been watching your videos and it is helping me learn kanji. Your explanation is really good and comprehensive. Thanks!
いつもありがとうございます
Thanks a lot😊
this video is amazing. Thank you. I was so scared of earning kanji. Tried so much. Now I am looking forwrd to it
I appreciate you so much, for you are teaching so nicely.
I guess I’m a language nerd because I found all the stuff I don’t need to know really interesting. Thanks for explaining all that stuff! Good video
Very helpful Misa! Thanks!
Just wow! That was such a helpful video!
I just subscribed, thank you so much!
I always come back to this video and start here whenever I want to revise kanji.
So helpful, thank you Misa sann
ever since i started watching Misa awhile back my Japanese has improved so much
Like for real she is 100% top 3 best Japanese teachers on UA-cam.
She cant make you rememorize it, you gotta put in your own practice but she always has such useful information that helps you develop a better understanding of the language.
I had no idea that the reason for 今日 being kyo was because the hiragana word was preestablished before the Kanji
that 3 minute section like literarily blew my mind cuss in all my 3 years of studying Japanese i never knew that that was a thing in kanji.
now i know that tho
next time i study kanji and am like why the hell is this word spelled with these kanji ill know the reason because of Misa telling her audience things that alot of other teachers would overlook. It also helps with remembering too because you know why its like that.
So ya thats my rant lol
also big thanks to Misa for doing this for so long🙏🙏
the dedication is real🔥
Tons of useful information in here, thank you sensei !
The way that I learned black 黒 kuro is 里 looks like a window and windowsill and the four lines beneath is the same radical as fire 火 so think of a fire burning beneath a window and burning the windowsill BLACK with soot and ash.
I've always struggled with Kanji. When I lived in Japan for about a year I learned somewhat well how to make myself understood while speaking. Generally I'd just go out to a bar or a Izakaya, get hammered and talk to the owner. That part was easy. But having to sit down and memorize thousands of Kanji is just something that my ADHD riddled brain is always going to struggle with. Hopefully once I get my ADHD medicine it will get easier, but you never know.
The introduction was rather surreal!
Great video! :)
useful tips.👍👍👍
Just found this video and its an instant sub from me. This was very helpful to prepare my approach to kanji soon. Thank you very much! q.q I will definately follow more in the future as i keep on my journey of learning japanese
I love your style, Misa. Your video always keep me motivated to learn Japanese
This video was awesome! Thanks Misa! :)
thanks for making this super interesting.
Thanks for this. I have been slowly tinkering with Kanji and would like to believe I know like 60 odd so far, but of course, the greater ability to use and apply that knowledge is way harder!
This lesson is wonderful! You clarified many doubts I used to have ❤❤❤
PS. "Yes I had to suffer like you are suffering right now" 😂 I died 😂
Seeing this video reminded me to continue learning japanese through your videos. Your videos are truly amazing and have helped me ALOT with my Japanese. Your videos are unmatched and I hope you keep on creating them in the future! ありがとう、私の大好きな日本語の先生！
(I hope there isn't anything wrong with that sentence, if there is please correct me)
I would think you could omit the 私, often when describing something as "liked" or "loved" it's implied that you're describing your own feelings. I could be wrong tho
I tried memorizing N5 kanjis for several months and maybe memorized 15 or 20 (and then forgot). Then I understood that I'm not a very visual guy. Memorizing squiggles is not my strength. Writing them down 10 times in a row - I will probably hurt someone near me. I tried Heisig Remembering the Kanji book, where the author groups the kanjis by radicals and other pieces. He also suggests using mnemonics and mini-stories for the pieces of kanjis which is amazing for auditory learners.
With this approach I learned the meanings and writings (NOT readings!!) of 1000 kanjis in 4 months, because each subsequent kanji reinforced the kanjis I learned before. I know that a lot of people finish Heisig's book (2300 kanjis) in 3 months, which is completely insane.
Instead of memorizing squiggles, i memorize stories, and it seems to work really well for me (about 93% recall). Occasionally I stop adding kanjis in Heisig order and add some N5, N4, N3 kanjis, so that it's easier to follow subtitles in TV shows. Then I return to Heisig's order because this way the remembering process is so much faster.
The readings? I don't care about the readings, they come from words. The readings of the kanjis is such a big mess that it's pointless to try to memorize them in isolation.
Try Heisig's book if you feel that repetitively writing kanjis down does not work for you. If your imagination works well, you will learn kanji in 3 months.
I think Heisig is kinda bad acually but if it helped you then that's good🙃
@@matzekatze7500 it may be relatively bad if you have good visual memory and can learn faster without mnemonics. That's certainly not my case. Without Heisig, I would still be stressed out about the N5 kanjis and mix up "tree", "person" and "big" :D
@@matzekatze7500 what is your experience with Heisig, what drawbacks did you notice?
@@ganqqwerty I personally just don't like the concept of learnign mnemocis that oftentimes have nothing to do with the actual meaning of the Kanji. I rather just learn words.
@@matzekatze7500 well, you're saying that because you're capable of doing that in a reasonable time without getting pissed off. If I see a word that consists of two or more kanji I don't know, there is no way I learn it without some mnemonic tricks... well maybe I will learn it, but it will take too much time and I will end up hating everybody.
It's good to see you upload a lesson again, Misa-Sensei.
When I started learning Japanese, I didn't know how deep the water is 😁But there is no way back now!
Awsome video, thanks!
Love your hair color ❤️ btw thanks I’m learning Japanese to travel some day to japan
This video came right on time for me, thanks 🙏🏽
本当にありがとうございます
Glad to see you again!
YOU'RE BACK!! URESHIIII 😊✨✌🏻
Hola saludos desde panamá 🇵🇦😸✌️
wow😲thank you so much Misa sensei, btw your hair looks so beautiful
Thank you, watched this video againn
"Jukujikun" is a word not usually found on the tip on one's tongue, but it is a subset of the ateji readings. (Most learners will be more familiar with that term).
I am struggling with my kanji. I can read n write in hiragana n katakana(not very good though). I think practice writing is good n also learn through singing karaoke. But i can 't write but can recognize the word. But i never give up learning because Japanese is a beautiful language. I love everything Japan - from its culture, beautiful country, its people very polite, its music etc.., thank you for recommending the app, I'll try it and let you know if it works
this managed to make me more interested in learning kanji :)
One can tell she knows what she is talking about. She has language experience. Good advice. 👍
We missed you, Misa! みさ先生は本当にいい先生です。
動画を作ってくれてありがとうございます、美沙先生!