Why We Don't Teach Readings (yet!) As mentioned in the introduction video to this series ( ruclips.net/video/RKWrWRFyfYo/видео.html ), it is my philosophy that it is a WASTE OF TIME to learn the readings for each kanji in isolation. I explain WHY in that video. To learn how to read kanji, I think it is best to learn WORDS that contain that kanji in the context of SENTENCES. We WILL be doing that in this series, after learning the meanings and writings for the 118 kanji in the JLPT N5 and Kanken 10 tests. So fear not! You WILL be learning how to read them in the near future. 😊
I've very recently started learning Japanese and while I'm still pretty intimidated by Kanji these videos have made me realize that it's probably the most interesting aspect of the language to me. Really appreciate the way you teach these part by part while also making it fun and interesting, I really look forward to these when they come out 👍
i cant thank you enough for this! you're walking us through the language step by step and it truly means a lot, as a begginer who is struggling financially i think your vids are true gems, im sure this takes so much time and effort so thank you so much for your hard work!!
You probably won't see this but, I want to thank you wholeheartedly. Because of you and your video on where to start, I'm finally learning Japanese! I can safely say that I know and can read 20 hiragana thanks to Tofugu. I'm late to the game as I'm 35 but I know I can do this.
I know 舌 tongue is a Kanken 1 level Kanji but it is pretty easy to write and perfectly usable for story. You should have mentioned it. Many words that are formed by my tongue result in a story. But of course I know you want to keep it simple.
I rarely go by English to Japanese dictionaries. I tend to base our names on Native Japanese dictionaries. And one main meaning of this kanji is "specialist" in those. 😊
Thank you for making kanji so easy. It helped me to restart learning Japanese as I gave up previously because of kanji. Please bring a video for the readings of the kanji learned in this playlist and also the words where we can use them.
hello andy! great lesson. i want to get a japanese tattoo, that says “this isn’t about you”(me talking to myself”. how would you write this? you’re the only guy i trust!(i have some japanese friends im gonna ask too haha”
7:25 looking at the text elements on the right there are some white areas where apparently the text has not been cut out fully? - Not sure if your software supports this but at least in Photoshop, one can just set the layer mode of the layer with the text to "darken". This little trick, when applicable, completely removes the need to cut out the text/make the non-letter parts of the layer transparent. I don't mean to mansplain here. ^^ It's just a tip that I found someday and it saves so much time that I think it's probably better to unnecessarily hear it twice rather than risking not ever hearing about it at all.
While using "five" and "mouth" for language makes a lot of sense over a kanji that's only currently used in names, why use "thousand" and "mouth" over "tongue" in "story"?
A few reasons. One, 舌 is a Kanken 5 and N3 kanji. That wouldn’t have necessarily stopped me, except that historically this does not appear to have been 舌 at all, and was instead abbreviated as 舌 more recently. The parts it’s REALLY made from we won’t be covering for ages, so I decided to just stick with Thousand Mouths, since that worked just as well as Tongue for a memorization story. For those who already know 舌 though, you’re more than welcome to use it in your stories. 😊
The 'word' kanji is my favorite so far, I'm not sure why..it also looks great in the left position. For the 'story' kanji I instantly came up with 'There's a thousand words in a story', it's short and simple and I didn't include 'mouth' as I recognize that naturally.
I´m now up to N2 with my Kanji, but I still like watching these for the story. One problem I have run into by now is that my reading comprehension has increased dramatically, but I no longer know how half the stuff I read is pronounced. I guess that will come with time.
ToKini, I'm into Japanese learning for probably 2 weeks (intensively), and I've learnt the hiragana and half of katakana alphabets, now I'm doing WaniKani (which is a site that u do Kanji lessons), I saw this site on your comments section and I am loving it I created a document with the Radicals, Kanji and vocabulary meanings and I feel super organized, I'm here to thank you by giving me this challenge I absolutely love ANIME so I'm really into it! Im watching ur grammar lessons, Im just needing a vocabulary tool but WaniKani can do it bc it has the meanings in hiragana and the sounds, so after all this I wanna say ありがとう ❤ (please tell me if I spelt it wrong :/).
These videos are my favorite resource and i like watching them for fun too because it’s so entertaining! Thank you Andy 先生 you deserve more recognition for your videos! 一番の先生！
While I think this series is great, I would also love to see some more content geared towards things like your past self imposed "challenges" or specifically talking about certain grammar points etc.. Your explanations help out a ton but it seems to be mostly geared at the first 6 lessons of Genki 1 than anything beyond that. Keep up the great stuff!
To not be entirely unhelpful in my request, here is an idea: A video going over when certain sounds are devoiced or when things get dropped in natural spoken conversation. Examples, dropping the う in です and dropping the を when speaking sometimes. The nuance explanations would be really cool to see you do content on!
Why We Don't Teach Readings (yet!)
As mentioned in the introduction video to this series ( ruclips.net/video/RKWrWRFyfYo/видео.html ), it is my philosophy that it is a WASTE OF TIME to learn the readings for each kanji in isolation. I explain WHY in that video.
To learn how to read kanji, I think it is best to learn WORDS that contain that kanji in the context of SENTENCES. We WILL be doing that in this series, after learning the meanings and writings for the 118 kanji in the JLPT N5 and Kanken 10 tests.
So fear not! You WILL be learning how to read them in the near future. 😊
Do you have an exact time when we will learn readings?
@@applinme657I am wondering that as well.
I've very recently started learning Japanese and while I'm still pretty intimidated by Kanji these videos have made me realize that it's probably the most interesting aspect of the language to me. Really appreciate the way you teach these part by part while also making it fun and interesting, I really look forward to these when they come out 👍
I'm so happy to hear that you are enjoying them! 😊 Kanji really can be fun.
Can I ask what's your level now? @ezzenious9923
@@student.studying3812 I've been using Wanikani, I'm currently at level 13.
i cant thank you enough for this! you're walking us through the language step by step and it truly means a lot, as a begginer who is struggling financially i think your vids are true gems, im sure this takes so much time and effort so thank you so much for your hard work!!
I'm happy to hear that it helps! 😊
You probably won't see this but, I want to thank you wholeheartedly. Because of you and your video on where to start, I'm finally learning Japanese! I can safely say that I know and can read 20 hiragana thanks to Tofugu. I'm late to the game as I'm 35 but I know I can do this.
Are you saying you only have to learn "specialist" if you're already a specialist in Kanji?
I know 舌 tongue is a Kanken 1 level Kanji but it is pretty easy to write and perfectly usable for story. You should have mentioned it. Many words that are formed by my tongue result in a story. But of course I know you want to keep it simple.
One thing I am kind of confused about is the specialist congee. Because when I look it up in the Japanese dictionary, it says a gentleman or samurai.
I rarely go by English to Japanese dictionaries. I tend to base our names on Native Japanese dictionaries. And one main meaning of this kanji is "specialist" in those. 😊
Thank you for making kanji so easy. It helped me to restart learning Japanese as I gave up previously because of kanji.
Please bring a video for the readings of the kanji learned in this playlist and also the words where we can use them.
hello andy! great lesson. i want to get a japanese tattoo, that says “this isn’t about you”(me talking to myself”. how would you write this? you’re the only guy i trust!(i have some japanese friends im gonna ask too haha”
7:25 looking at the text elements on the right there are some white areas where apparently the text has not been cut out fully? - Not sure if your software supports this but at least in Photoshop, one can just set the layer mode of the layer with the text to "darken". This little trick, when applicable, completely removes the need to cut out the text/make the non-letter parts of the layer transparent. I don't mean to mansplain here. ^^ It's just a tip that I found someday and it saves so much time that I think it's probably better to unnecessarily hear it twice rather than risking not ever hearing about it at all.
Is the kanji for story and to speak the same?
While using "five" and "mouth" for language makes a lot of sense over a kanji that's only currently used in names, why use "thousand" and "mouth" over "tongue" in "story"?
A few reasons. One, 舌 is a Kanken 5 and N3 kanji. That wouldn’t have necessarily stopped me, except that historically this does not appear to have been 舌 at all, and was instead abbreviated as 舌 more recently.
The parts it’s REALLY made from we won’t be covering for ages, so I decided to just stick with Thousand Mouths, since that worked just as well as Tongue for a memorization story.
For those who already know 舌 though, you’re more than welcome to use it in your stories. 😊
罐㒪鬭䪙䝣䤿譏鸊龘麚龜櫹，韆鷝䰋？鶙鷡䱱藼鼝。👍👍👍
The 'word' kanji is my favorite so far, I'm not sure why..it also looks great in the left position. For the 'story' kanji I instantly came up with 'There's a thousand words in a story', it's short and simple and I didn't include 'mouth' as I recognize that naturally.
I´m now up to N2 with my Kanji, but I still like watching these for the story. One problem I have run into by now is that my reading comprehension has increased dramatically, but I no longer know how half the stuff I read is pronounced. I guess that will come with time.
ToKini, I'm into Japanese learning for probably 2 weeks (intensively), and I've learnt the hiragana and half of katakana alphabets, now I'm doing WaniKani (which is a site that u do Kanji lessons), I saw this site on your comments section and I am loving it I created a document with the Radicals, Kanji and vocabulary meanings and I feel super organized, I'm here to thank you by giving me this challenge I absolutely love ANIME so I'm really into it!
Im watching ur grammar lessons, Im just needing a vocabulary tool but WaniKani can do it bc it has the meanings in hiragana and the sounds, so after all this I wanna say ありがとう ❤ (please tell me if I spelt it wrong :/).
These videos are my favorite resource and i like watching them for fun too because it’s so entertaining! Thank you Andy 先生 you deserve more recognition for your videos! 一番の先生！
The specialist selling a pair of sexy legs wearing a hat while weilding a broadaxe made me laugh. Now I can't unsee it. Thanks? Hahaha!
You had to show the prompter 😂, mine arrived on December, works like a charm 👌🏻
These were kanjis I had the hardest time to learn and remember from JPLT5 level, thank you so much. Now it is much much easier for me to remember.
While I think this series is great, I would also love to see some more content geared towards things like your past self imposed "challenges" or specifically talking about certain grammar points etc.. Your explanations help out a ton but it seems to be mostly geared at the first 6 lessons of Genki 1 than anything beyond that. Keep up the great stuff!
To not be entirely unhelpful in my request, here is an idea: A video going over when certain sounds are devoiced or when things get dropped in natural spoken conversation. Examples, dropping the う in です and dropping the を when speaking sometimes. The nuance explanations would be really cool to see you do content on!
Thanks for the video!
You're very welcome!