As per request in the Game Gengo discord, I'll also be adding stroke order to future videos If you have any suggestions please feel free to leave a comment! I read absolutely every comment! :)
Thanks so much for the amazing content! I know a lot of RUclipsrs get burnt out because they think if they take a break their channel will fall off, but remember to take care of yourself too! Thanks again for helping me in my studies!
thanks for making this video, today me and my friend learning n5 kanji and your video exist. i hope you can continue kanji series... it helps me and my friend a lot 🙏🙏 thank you very much
I swear you do such a good job with your channel. It's easier for me to learn when I see what you are saying used in video games right after. It helps it to stick. You are one of the few channels I have the bell on for! Keep it up!
Forget Remember the Kanji now we have Game The Kanji or Gengo The Kanji (GTK). Nice Work man only thing I haven't seen you cover formally is Japanese expression like お腹が空いて or slang ポチら, 今夜は絶対にポチらないと誓ったんだ。でも、セールの通知が来てしまった. Every thing else is great you could include a visual quiz at the end to reinforce the lesson but apart from that its really great. お疲れ様でした！
Thank you so much for all the work you put in to making these videos! Not only have they helped me in enhancing my learning (particularly as I study for the N3 JLPT), but I have also showed some of your videos to the students I teach Japanese to and they love it. They love pointing out which games you have included that they have played, and they find the mnemonics super helpful. Keep it up!
Thank you for your amazing work. Your videos are an incredible resource for learning and the way you make your content is nothing short of incredible, motivating and professional. Take care of yourself!
i found it funny that the kanji for "man" and "good" combine to make "what". as if the people who made it couldn't fathom a man being good was even possible. "a good man? What??"
Something I've been wondering is if nanka is always written なんか and 何か is always nanika, or if the reading of 何か is just subjective based on the speaker
On the contrary to many English resources, kanji themselves dont inherently have a 'meaning' but rather readings and words they are used in. This is why instead I focus on the 'concept/keyword' so learners can still have something to conceptualize, without being incorrect and saying 'this kanji = this meaning' :)
It's a common misconception, that's why its best to learn vocabulary words WITH kanji, rather than kanji in isolation. Kanji are not words by themselves, but rather they are used WITH words. Example: 日本語 does NOT mean 'Sun Book Language', but rather にほんご means 'Japanese language' and those kanji are used to express that word when used in that combination. Kanji can be used to represent different concepts, sometimes its only one concept and so it can be mistaken as a singular 'meaning' but often you'll see kanji express multiple different concepts, sometimes not clearly related to one another. Like for example 本 being used to express book/basis/origin/cause/counter for blades of grass etc when used within/with words like 本 for 'book', 一本 for 'one cylindrical thing' , 根本 for 'basis/root' but it does not mean those things by itself, the WORD is what actually means those things ほん・いっぽん・こんぽん etc
@@GameGengo Gotcha. I think I understand your point. To someone looking at 日本 they may not know the 天照大神 creation myth, so it might make no sense at all, and if you look at a pile of English keywords for a kanji like 本 it may be hard to draw the connection between them and scrolls written recording the histories/justifications/origins of the empire. I certainly have found myself thinking too literally about an approximate translation before, and learning words does help make me think more flexibly about what a kanji can mean. And there's some I can't explain except by making up my own fake etymology. But most are pretty straightforward, so I wouldn't just memorise words item by item either.
As per request in the Game Gengo discord, I'll also be adding stroke order to future videos
If you have any suggestions please feel free to leave a comment! I read absolutely every comment! :)
What do you think of having more kanji per video? Maybe 3 or 4 kanji that are closely related or usually seen together.
Thanks so much for the amazing content! I know a lot of RUclipsrs get burnt out because they think if they take a break their channel will fall off, but remember to take care of yourself too! Thanks again for helping me in my studies!
やっぱり、何級でもマットさんのビデオを見たら、いつも新しいことを学びます。今回は何の「か」の読み方でした。教えてくれてありがとうございます。
thanks for making this video, today me and my friend learning n5 kanji and your video exist. i hope you can continue kanji series... it helps me and my friend a lot 🙏🙏 thank you very much
I swear you do such a good job with your channel. It's easier for me to learn when I see what you are saying used in video games right after. It helps it to stick. You are one of the few channels I have the bell on for! Keep it up!
Forget Remember the Kanji now we have Game The Kanji or Gengo The Kanji (GTK). Nice Work man only thing I haven't seen you cover formally is Japanese expression like お腹が空いて or slang ポチら, 今夜は絶対にポチらないと誓ったんだ。でも、セールの通知が来てしまった. Every thing else is great you could include a visual quiz at the end to reinforce the lesson but apart from that its really great. お疲れ様でした！
Thank you so much for all the work you put in to making these videos! Not only have they helped me in enhancing my learning (particularly as I study for the N3 JLPT), but I have also showed some of your videos to the students I teach Japanese to and they love it. They love pointing out which games you have included that they have played, and they find the mnemonics super helpful. Keep it up!
Thank you for your amazing work. Your videos are an incredible resource for learning and the way you make your content is nothing short of incredible, motivating and professional. Take care of yourself!
I don't like your very long video, but I have to say I very much like this one.
I love the longer ones.
Love this video!
i found it funny that the kanji for "man" and "good" combine to make "what".
as if the people who made it couldn't fathom a man being good was even possible.
"a good man? What??"
This series is so good
Something I've been wondering is if nanka is always written なんか and 何か is always nanika, or if the reading of 何か is just subjective based on the speaker
NANI?
"What is the meaning?"
"That's right."
On the contrary to many English resources, kanji themselves dont inherently have a 'meaning' but rather readings and words they are used in. This is why instead I focus on the 'concept/keyword' so learners can still have something to conceptualize, without being incorrect and saying 'this kanji = this meaning' :)
@@GameGengo "What is the concept/keyword?"
"Damn, you're on a roll."
@@GameGengo That's news to me! あやしい😄
It's a common misconception, that's why its best to learn vocabulary words WITH kanji, rather than kanji in isolation. Kanji are not words by themselves, but rather they are used WITH words. Example: 日本語 does NOT mean 'Sun Book Language', but rather にほんご means 'Japanese language' and those kanji are used to express that word when used in that combination. Kanji can be used to represent different concepts, sometimes its only one concept and so it can be mistaken as a singular 'meaning' but often you'll see kanji express multiple different concepts, sometimes not clearly related to one another. Like for example 本 being used to express book/basis/origin/cause/counter for blades of grass etc when used within/with words like 本 for 'book', 一本 for 'one cylindrical thing' , 根本 for 'basis/root' but it does not mean those things by itself, the WORD is what actually means those things ほん・いっぽん・こんぽん etc
@@GameGengo Gotcha. I think I understand your point. To someone looking at 日本 they may not know the 天照大神 creation myth, so it might make no sense at all, and if you look at a pile of English keywords for a kanji like 本 it may be hard to draw the connection between them and scrolls written recording the histories/justifications/origins of the empire. I certainly have found myself thinking too literally about an approximate translation before, and learning words does help make me think more flexibly about what a kanji can mean. And there's some I can't explain except by making up my own fake etymology. But most are pretty straightforward, so I wouldn't just memorise words item by item either.