ABSOLUTE BEGINNER Japanese - Where to Start

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Here's WHERE TO START Learning Japanese. Learn HOW to learn Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji in the first installment in this new series: Absolute Beginner Japanese. Where do you start? Well, if you want to learn Japanese, you have to start with Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. At a MINIMUM you need to learn hiragana before starting with anything else. In this video, I tell you how to learn hiragana, katakana, AND kanji. I hope it helps!
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0:00 Intro
0:14 How to Learn Hiragana
1:35 How to Learn Katakana
2:15 How to Learn Kanji
5:30 Absolute Beginner Japanese 1 - Conclusion

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25 июн 2024

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@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

ToKini Andy has outgrown Patreon. There is so much premium content now, that we decided to move (there were other reasons too). You can now access our premium course material at: www.tokiniandy.com/

@NilfgardianNationalist 3 года назад

I pretty much owe my Japanese to Andy. I DO NOT know what I would have done without him. KING

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

I'm so happy that I was able to help! =)

@Kirqos 3 года назад

One thing I'd like to add is that it only took me about a day or two to learn to read Hiragana... but "reading" really meant slow and painful reading with the occasional "is that me or nu" doubt. This is totally fine and expected, I think. The more you read, the easier it will become and the faster you will read. Almost half a year later, I can read much faster (even though it's still not as fast as Latin characters). For Katakana, it's unfortunately worse because of a) it being much rarer and b) シツソン

@Rayvn7 11 месяцев назад

....Yes, yet another reminder to always learn Japanese language first, instead of learning any Japanese letters or kanji on purpose.

@user-ck1ih5yw3d Месяц назад

"Write Japanese" is a great app for learning hiragana and katakana fast

@danny.ray101 Год назад

I learned the second Kanji in 漢字 today so I can finally read Kanji written in Kanji, woowoo! It makes so much sense it means Chinese character.

@itoko05 3 года назад

Over the past week I’ve been watching your videos especially the genki series and those alone just skyrocketed my understanding and ability in Japanese, I thank you from the bottom of my heart 😭

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

I'm happy to hear that they are helping!

@temporaryyname8368 3 года назад

Came here to say I finished my one year of basic Japanese at my University with an A. All thanks to Andy! I put in a lot of work obviously, I payed extra attention to his videos and re-watched them when I struggled. However, he is the king of explaining grammar, I couldn't have done it without him! A tip I would give in studying all parts of the Japanese language, is to write everything out by hand so you remember it. Keep all your notes in an organized notebook. Thank you Andy! Good luck to everyone else learning Japanese! You can do it! がんばて！

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Thank you for the comment! I'm so happy that I was able to help! ☺️

@xinyi2008 3 года назад

Your videos are probably the best source to learn Japanese tbh thank you soooooooo much I've learned soo much already!

@mafuuya02 2 года назад

I learned hiragana in a few days before starting out with learning anything else. I was too lazy to learn Katakana, but I’ve slowly and surely picked it up, too now. What definitely helped me was having the strict rule of never writing or reading in romaji, and I think thanks to that my reading speed is pretty good already. However, Kanji is going to take some time… 😅

@ToKiniAndy 2 года назад

It is what takes the most time for most people, so take your time! =)

@ParamoreGuiful 3 года назад

I’m not even in this level anymore, just came to give a like and help your channel, your genki series is saving my life! Thanl you very much.

@ramadem 3 года назад

I've been trying to learn Japanese without hiragana and was doing somewhat well with romanji but I've recently started struggling with new vocab and stopped for weeks now seeing this video seems like it was meant for just me so hopefully now I can get back and start from zero. Thanks for the videos and your patreon both are amazing tools

@RSturtleness 4 месяца назад

Jumping back into Japanese after learning the language 20 years ago. Love your approach and can’t wait to start over. Got my start watching a pbs series and fell in love with the culture. Here I go!

@Come2Japan 3 года назад

There he is....lol solid advice!

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Thank you sir. ;-) Haven't shown my face much in the recent videos. heh

@AdvFox 11 месяцев назад

I agree with most of your points, however for me personally...? I needed to apply the kana for it to stick. Learning vocabularly alongside learning hiragana has helped me tremendously. Every time I attempted to start learning and focusing ONLY on hiragana and katakana, I eventually would give up and not touch it for months after feeling like I was getting nowhere. I felt incredibly overwhelmed by doing so and worse I have extremely bad short term memory due to longstanding learning disabilities. So please don't say that you should only learn kana before doing anything else. ESPECIALLY when most learners are not memorizing and understanding kana in a couple hours as claimed. You CAN learn and apply what you've learned with hiragana/katakana alongside vocabulary; and it is 100% okay to do so, especially if you're struggling. I found learning the kana alongside vocabulary much easier for me to grasp and remember. Admittedly, like some of the others, this has turned me quite a bit off from the content.

@AnimeInitiative 3 года назад

Thanks man, your vidoes are really helpful. If I'm going to be fluent in Japanese then it'll be cause of your genki series and other helpful tips videos

@mister_floppy_hockeyhighlights 3 года назад

I am so glad I found yours and Dan's channels! Extremely helpful videos and you've made japanese less intimidating for me to learn.

@mister_floppy_hockeyhighlights 3 года назад

And tofugu is a great little site thanks for the link, I am working on the hiragana section right now.

@Admwings 3 года назад

Thank you for your wonderful videos!

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

You're welcome! Thank you for watching!

@MarkyTeriyaki 3 года назад

You make Japanese a lot easier to understand, keep it up Andy

@BlightVonDrake 3 года назад

I've been doing Anki to learn Kanji and strengthen my kana through repetition, because I taught myself the kana before starting repetition. It's been slow going, but I'm sticking to it. I'm about 400 or so in. I REALLY want to start on vocabulary, it's kinda driving me crazy, at points, but then I see all that I've been learning and it calms me back down about the process. I'll do vocabulary when I'm ready. I may still have over 1800 kanji to learn, but I've been enjoying it. Especially since when I learn new kanji, I write them, and I've been intending to draw more visual stimuli for kanji. That has helped me cement certain kanji in my mind, just by drawing a simple piece of art for them, and remembering that art and what it's associated with.

@GameGengo 3 года назад

Hahah woooo Slime Forest Adventure! That's exactly what I used to memorize hiragana AND katakana! Only downside was it also teaches you the now obsolete ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ for no real reason haha

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Yeeah, that was a bit weird. haha Funny we both used the same thing!

@GameGengo 3 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy Haha yeah I have a feeling we both come from quite similar points, even our experience with WoW shares some similarities :P

@jamestays8416 3 года назад

Two of my favorite Japanese RU-vidrs commenting each other. Huh, so this is what it's like to fanboy.

@chinweasogwa1986 2 года назад

Thank you 😊

@ml677 3 года назад

Omg I’ve been stalking ur channel since I ordered my genki books and I finished exams so I’m ready to officially start. This is exactly the video I need right now!! Thank you for all your great content!!

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Happy to hear it was helpful!

@chockymilk2887 2 года назад

how's the progress?

@denis_MXMV 2 года назад

Your videos are very helpful. I’m a beginner and it’s very important for me to have some structure in studying. Thank you from Russia 🇷🇺

@miriammanolov9135 3 года назад

That's how I started. I started with Hiragana for few days. Still forgetful and have to double check with my cheat sheet once in a while. I'm starting with Katakana this week. In the past few months, I've been watching your videos (I'm still at lesson 5 Genki 1 because I'm a slow learner, and English is my second language!) I appreciate you writing both Kanji and Katakana using Hiragana on the side, so I don't feel that I'm missing out on some verb forms, grammar, conjugation, ...etc. Once in a while, I have to refer to my Arabic language to figure out the Japanese grammar since sometimes the English one does not always stick 🤣😉

@speicertus 3 года назад

Thank you for the video! I am now already midway through genki || and your videos are really helpful, especially with some tough grammar points :)

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

I'm happy to hear that the videos have been helping! =) Thank you for watching.

@johnpro112 3 года назад

Looking forward to your Quartet content There's already so much beginner content on RU-vid/Reddit/Online. But when it comes to learning Intermediate content, it's so rare.

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

I'm working on it. In the mean time, I'm putting stuff out like this because I get questions on it all the time. I'm sorry it's taking time, but I want it to be good, so I have to ask for your patience.

@Those2menoverthere 6 месяцев назад

I learned my Hiragana and Katakana by forcing myself to do Sporcle quizzes over and over, I found it to be very effective. I made up my own little story or “meaning” as best as I could, about each symbol. Like how I remembered the difference between ぬ(nu) and め(me) wasn’t quite what someone would expect. I said to myself that ぬ(nu) has that extra loose “tail” at right side but め(me) doesn’t, so that shows that め(me) is closer to itself (less loose), in other words yourself or the word ME (as in the English word me) became my device to remember the difference.

@Mikelaxo 2 месяца назад

I learned hiragana and katakana with Duolingo

@xiaofei89 Год назад

I bought the learn fast hiragana and katana, I’ve memorized it in a week. It’s so cool to watch animes like yashahime that always adds the names of the characters on the screen and me being able to read it. It’s super cool. My problem is that I’m a B1 in Chinese, so I know a lot of 汉子，so I instantly read them in Chinese. Is there anyone with the same problem?

@amekovworp 5 месяцев назад

it begins (my hand already hurts from writing)

@tankeryy1566 3 года назад

few days ago there was a reddit post about "the hiragana equivalent of the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and yeah it's helpful for beginners so here you go: *Hiragana:* いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよたれそつねならむうゐのおくやまけふこえてあさきゆめみしゑひもせすん *Katakana (You can change the hiragana to katakana to practice):* イロハニホヘトチリヌルヲワカヨタレソツネナラムウヰノオクヤマケフコエテアサキユメミシヱヒモセスン *Additional Note:* *In terms of Hiragana the characters ゐ (wi) and ゑ (we) are obsoletes so it’s normal if you don’t know them. *In terms of Katakana the characters ヰ (wi) and ヱ (we) are obsoletes so it’s normal if you don’t know them. *transliteration:* Iro ha nihoheto - いろはにほへと Chirinuru o - ちりぬるを Wa ka yo tare so - わかよたれそ Tsune naramu - つねならむ Uwi no okuyama - うゐのおくやま Kefu koete - けふこえて Asaki yume mishi - あさきゆめみし Wehi mo sesu - ゑひもせす N - ん

@NikkiLove9022 2 года назад

I've been wanting to learn Japanese for SUCH a long time, but I feel so intimidated by everything I'm going to have to learn. I think it's because I've got such a bad memory, and I have no idea where to start with anything. D:

@richardsonrichly8456 Год назад

I ive still haven't mastered katakana because you i bearly come across it or if i do its always the same ones so the few i struggle with are the once i don't see often

@cutiephinphinJL 3 года назад

Hi Andy, I've currently learning Japanese but I'm having issues applying my knowledge to written. Eg in the workbooks, if it's an open section meaning it can be a combination of questions from different chapters, I don't know how to answer. I'm wondering if joining ur patreon will have helpful guidance etc.

@ricardoneves5094 Год назад

Thanks so much for your videos! I didnt see how to use the RRTK file. I tried importing it on Anki but it didnt recognize it. Any help please?

@Nathan-sq9xv 3 года назад

Woah woah woah You learned kana in a few hours? It took me 2-4 weeks. I found it A BIT difficult but now it’s really easy (obviously, you’d hope that I’d find it easy by lesson 9 of Genki) I used DuoLingo (in January), I guess I wasted my time

@AymanSully 3 года назад

I swear it took me like 2x long time to learn katakana compared to hiragana haha, all the shapes look so similar there!! Had to use flip cards until there was only like a bunch left which were the hardest (フ、ワ、ヌ、ネ、タ、シ、ツ）

@cameron4225 3 года назад

I’m fluent why am I watching this

@uuoogghh 3 года назад

i'd say im decent at hiragana and katakana reading, currently level 3 on wanikani and spends 30min to 1 hour on anki. Also I've been playing your genki lessons on loop whenever I have extra time, first six lessons helped me understand a lot. But when should I really focus on grammar? As soon as possible or Kanji first?

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

I'd prefer to get as much grammar out of the way as possible, so you can start doing more interesting stuff. =) I do it ALONG with Kanji though.

@thecarsul Год назад

Is your discord beginner friendly? I'm someone who recently had to restart genki 1 (workbook) and am working on katakana and kanji to little to no avail.

@CrazyBrook96 2 года назад

I rly struggle with remembering hiragana that look alike like た and な or ね and れ

@manuqc4435 3 года назад

Hey Andy, I've started learning japanese 10 days ago and my hiragana & katakana are solid. I have been watching your genki 1 playlist for a few days but I recently stumbled upon this guy called "Olly Richards" who claims that learning with story reading is the best strategy and the only one we really need. I am skeptical though, and wanted to know your thoughts on that.

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Whenever someone tells you there is a "best" and "only" way to do something, ask yourself what it is that they sell. ;-)

@manuqc4435 3 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy Great advice :)

@syedaamir5693 3 года назад

Can you suggest me a book in which all the content of n5 to n1 is covered like all the content in n5,4,3,2,1 is covered like grammar and vocabulary kanji etc is all covered in one book

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Unfortunately, that doesn't exist. It's just too much info.

@sheet3335 3 года назад

smh i found this when I`m sleepy.af and about to sleep. question man about your genki books lessons here in youtube, do you cover the whole book in one video or 2 or full version discussion of a one genku book is.only available.on patreon. i believe you do practice lessons on patreon but idk if you discuss here in youtube the full book lesson.or. if you post it on patreob

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

I cover all of the grammar for each lesson in 1 video. The patreon has supplemental content that goes through the exercises, adds listening and shadowing practice, and covers vocabulary. I'll be ADDING videos with more examples and explanations this year.

@syedaamir5693 3 года назад

Ok so can you tell me that after mastering the genki can I start the book A DICTIONARY OF ADVANCED JAPANESE GRAMMAR

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

That's just a dictionary, so it might not be what you're looking for. Genki covers about (this is an estimate) 60-70% of what's in A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar. So, A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar will help more.

@rebeccaedgett5846 2 года назад

Andy, I am starting Japanese learning as a complete beginner. How long do you recommend I spend on studying every day? Can I learn effectively with only 1 hour per day, or do I need to devote more time each day? Thank you!

@ToKiniAndy 2 года назад

That depends on how much time you HAVE. If you only have 1 hour per day, it's always going to be better than 0. It also depends on what your goals and timelines are like. You can do quite a bit with 1 hour per day though, if you can focus for the whole hour. =)

@rebeccaedgett5846 2 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy Yes, it would be one hour of doing a solid lesson. I would also add more time each day to listen to podcasts or videos in Japanese.

@ToKiniAndy 2 года назад

@@rebeccaedgett5846 Starting out that should be fine. 👍

@rebeccaedgett5846 2 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy Thank you! Appreciate the help.

@cookieface80 7 месяцев назад

"Never write a Japanese word using Roman characters again" Unless you want to type.

@awembaweawembawe6116 3 года назад

Have you already started teaching quartet?

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

Nope. We will start this Sunday.

@awembaweawembawe6116 3 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy oh on patreon only?

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

@@awembaweawembawe6116 No, it will be on RU-vid. The bonus content for it will be on www.tokiniandy.com and Patreon.

@Nathan-sq9xv 3 года назад

I learned the first 2 in January. Would it be dumb to memorize the kanji in Genki 1 once I complete the book?

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

You can try, but Genki doesn't offer the most intuitive method of learning kanji. It's just rote memorization. You'll probably want to go for something else.

@Nathan-sq9xv 3 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy I know it’s preference, but still. would it be dumb to start learning after Genki 1? In kanji all I know is Teacher Student I 1 2 3 4 And month, like January is 1月 Should I start after Genki 1? (I’m on lesson 9)

@ToKiniAndy 3 года назад

@@Nathan-sq9xv ahh I see. It's fine to wait.

@Nathan-sq9xv 3 года назад

@@ToKiniAndy I already told you this but my plan is to attend a language school in Japan I’m just trying to learn as much as I can before I do that because it’s not the cheapest thing doing language school especially in Japan the language schools that teach French here compared to the language schools that teach Japanese over there it’s more expensive over there not that I mind I’m choosing to do it no ones forcing me to do it. I want to do it, I just wanna learn as much as I can before. Something tells me I’ll be able to memorize around 500 by that time I really hope you blow up by the way. (In subs) You’re the best teacher

@BuuBuuSan 10 месяцев назад

Do people actually learn hiragana in just a couple of hours/days? I do not want to move from hiragana and katakana until I know all the phonetics without doubting twice

@anoakenstaff 9 месяцев назад

Just finished both yesterday, and I'd say to move on quickly. You can just practice as you go along, and mistakes are lessons, right?

@johnlandefeld2039 Год назад

Anyone who says that you can learn Hiragana in just a few hours is either full of shit or has an incredible memory better than most people. I hate hearing that because it always makes me feel like crap in the fact that I can never remember every single character within a “few hours”. Of course, I’m not studying six hours a day and if I were I probably would be able to. But his comment also presupposes that you are reviewing that information every single day for weeks on end (if you aren’t then you really are a savant). Then you could truly say that you remembered it and thus you have “learned” it. I’m always looking for information about learning Japanese more efficiently but it turns me off when RU-vidrs say that about learning Hiragana. How many people have the time to master something in another language in a “few hours”… please.

@ToKiniAndy Год назад

That's fair. But, if you use stories on things like the Tofugu blog post, it really does only take a few hours of focus to get the gist of it. Of course you're going to forget them over time, but if you keep going and never go back to Romaji, each character gets reinforced for every single word that you read. This makes review much less necessary for hiragana than for any other part of the language. Katakana took me longer to learn, possibly because many look alike, but with a good story for each hiragana character it doesn't take too long. Of course, this will be different between individuals, but I see no reason to lie that it took me longer than it actually did. I'm sorry for turning you off, though. =(

@aislynncarpenter701 5 месяцев назад

@@ToKiniAndy I wouldn't worry about it, I think this person just misunderstood the statement and took it personally.

@user-xx2br5bz5r 9 месяцев назад

Me being Chinese where everything is like kanji: *laughs* Pathetic.”

@Rayvn7 11 месяцев назад

....Of course, in actual reality, you literally never need to learn kana or kanji, or hirigana unless you are learning it specifically for a job that involves writing, because all Japanese can read romaji. So you sow distrust on your video after approximately 3 seconds, since obviously you can learn Japanese much easier if you aren't trying to memorize complicated letters at the same time. And if you are learning for personal interest, then you have the ability to learn kana much easier when you already speak fluent Japanese so that you don't have to try to learn two different things at the same time and one of which is something you will never need in daily everyday life.

@anoakenstaff 9 месяцев назад

Sure but it's really helpful for reading stuff like signs or menus- and most books on Japanese use at least hiragana and katakana.