About the MochiKanji App - Download links for iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/mochikanji-learn-japanese/id1463353686 - Download links for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mochimochi.android.an&hl=en_US - Join MochiMochi - Learn Japanese facebook group: facebook.com/groups/mochimochi.learnkanji I'm sorry for the audio issue>< I'll work on it for the next future videos so that this issue won't come up again.
Hi! Thank you so much for a good review of the MochiKanji app, and a useful video as well. MochiMochi wishes you and your channel more success with the insightful content you bring to your audience!
Great video, thank you. One suggestion: The audio for your voice is only in the left ear. This makes it difficult when using headphones. Can you "center" your voice audio in the recording for future videos?
I've studied Japanese for roughly 2 years and you are the first person to recognize the tireless work and encourage me. Even through video it felt nice and is appreciated!
Kanji is difficult to learn as it has no connection to english language. I am going to trust you and take your advice and download mochikanji and do what it says and I will report back to you in one month to see if I have learned 1000 kanji. Presently I only know 30 kanji well, so I am at the first grade level. Thanks for the video. Gambate!
I like the _Kanji Starter_ series by Daiki Kusuya. In these books, kanji are explained as pictures. For example, 伴 (to accompany) has the 人 (person) radical, or part of a kanji, on the left side and 半 (half) on the right. The meaning of this is "a person's better half", or in other words, companion. This kanji is used in the verb _tomonau_ (伴う), meaning "to accompany". As a noun, it can be read as _tomo_ (伴) meaning "friend". When the Chinese, or "sound" reading, is applied, it's _ban_ or _han._ This form often appears in compound words of Chinese origin, nouns such as _banshoku_ (伴食 = commensalism) and verbs such as _dôhan-suru_ (同伴する = to be accompanied by someone). Kanji are more like symbols representing meaning, rather than letters that represent phonemes (individual sounds). (Hiragana and Katakana represent sounds.) Once we think of kanji that way, and think of Japanese writing as a kind of rebus (writing that combines pictures and letters), then learning Japanese writing becomes feasible, even if there is a lot to learn.
It’s useless to try to learn 1000 kanjis in a month, more over it’s completely unattainable. 10 a day is already a lot, 5/7 a day is ideal. What’s the point to learn 1000 kanjis in one month is 2 months later you can remember only 200/300 lol
@@xunvenile I rewrite them daily, personally the only way I can remember them is to write them as much as possible… T.T Flash cards could work for you though! Also, more you learn some, easier it is to memorize them, once you know about 300/400of them, you’ll know the vast majority of radicals and thus it’ll be way easier to memorize new kanji..! I’m rooting for you 🥲
@@xunvenile I know about one app named Japanese kanji study (chase Colburn) with the help of this app I can easily learn 40 kanji for a week . May it will help you
Thank you so much for your support and comments! I really appreicte it! I'll try my best to upload videos that could help students improve their Japanese levels! いっしょにがんばっていきましょうね^^Have a great day!
This video was very useful. I'm learning japanese at university and we've started learning kanji and it's fun but definitely overwhelming so thank you for the advice. I love your energy and support. 本当にありがとうございます。🌸
コメントありがとうございます!Thank you so much for your comment and support too^^ I really apprecite it. I know it's a bit overwhelming to memorize especitally if you just started learning. But you can do it and I will try my best to upload usuful videos for everyone and hope those videos will help your study,too!がんばってくださいね!
As someone preparing for the JLPT, I really appreciate the breakdown of kanji requirements for each level. It gives me a clear goal to work towards and helps me understand the scale of the challenge ahead.
Consistency in language learning is something I've struggled with, but your words have inspired me to stay committed to my studies. Thank you for the encouragement
This is honestly very subjective…depending on the person. - It all depends on what you’re into….Children’s books is something I never got into…but I’m a gamer…so I just started playing games in full Japanese instead….almost knowing no Japanese whatsoever. Of course, my initial list of games would be games with very simple kanji (N5-N4) or that had furigana…and just worked my way up - I could never get into radicals,..I just started learning kanji and by the time I was learning around N2 level kanji the parts that make em up just made sense and I felt like I could take an educated guess as to what a new kanji’s 音読み may sound like. - For me spaced repetition was the way to go with everything from vocab to grammar to kanji…I was actually one of those that just wrote kanji thousands of times while repeating the readings and meanings each time…took me a year to get from N5 to N1 kanji and even some 常用 that didn’t seem to be part of JLPT…but now even though I can no longer write kanji everything just “comes to me”….however, for some people spaced repetition doesn’t work… but as you well pointed out, consistency is key :) Goes without saying 1000 kanji in a month is a bit clickbaity as it’s impossible to learn that many in a month…even for natives…great vid nonetheless :)
Thank you so much for your comment^^ I really do appreicte you sharing your own Japanese study jouney! Games!!! If you have any recommendation on games which were very useful for your study, I'd appreicte if you could let me know the names of the games^^ いっしょに日本語がんばっていきましょうね!
@@NihongoWithYukino The games I used were normal games not meant to teach Japanese. After learning kana, I started playing very simple games I have never played before but I still wanted to play. My approach was just play normal games (with a lot of text) and add unknown words to anki...of course, at the beginning I knew almost nothing so I just spent a lot of time adding new words to anki. Luigi's Mansion 3 - This was my first game and it has almost no kanji. Because there is almost no kanji in the conversations, there is also spacing where it make sense in the sentence. Grammar was also extremely simple. Definitely recommend it as a first game to anyone starting to learn. Paper Mario Origami King - This was my second game, but it was much much harder compared to the first one in terms of Japanese. There is also A LOT of dialogue. Animal Crossing (あつまれ どうぶつの森) - Although I didn't play it much, this one is definitely really helpful as you learn about every day items For anyone learning this way I recommend playing harder and harder games in terms of Japanese. At some point, I also recommend starting to read either Visual Novels, Light Novels or books as they have a ton of vocab you just can't learn through just games.
I just come accross your channel just now and I found it very educational that I subscribe at once. Though I already passed JLPT 2 (ooops that was almost 20 years ago) I still have difficulty memorizing Kanji characters especially now that I'm getting older. I will try to download and use MochiKanji apps to review and enhance my Kanji once again. Thank you and looking forward to studying Kanji more.
こんにちは!Thank you for sharing these valuable insights on mastering the Japanese language! Kanji sure presents its challenges, but with dedication and the right approach, it's definitely achievable!
Nice video keep it up, many of the people are searching for this video , I will share it to them and to other students . I am subcribed. Thanks for great content.
I learnt kanji with their keys. And I can guess the meaning or the reading by deduction. For ex 飛行機>means airplane and 飛行場 have the same beginning and means Aerodrome. It s like 復習 with 練習 and 習う。 The 1st means review the 2nd training and the 3rd to learn. As a fan of JPop, I learn lot of kanji in songs. I don t know how many kanji I know but I can read lot of kanji. And I use an app named Migi JLPT and there is flashcards and all kanji to N5 to N1 free. I like kanji and in Japanese that s the thing the most interesting to learn🙂
Thank you very much for posting this. I am a great fun of Yuzuru Hanyu, but enjoyed very much the fantastic dancing/skating by Daisuke Tkahashi and seeing this moment of passing the championship onto Yuzuru.
Your vlog is truly inspiring! It has motivated me in so many ways. If you're looking to immerse yourself in the Japanese language and culture, I highly recommend trying out tools like Immersive Translate. I discovered this extension through a kind individual who shared it with me, and I've found it to be incredibly helpful in my language journey.
I would like to agree with the idea of learning kanji within a phrase, eg 度胸にいきます. I am going to Tokyo. In the first two minutes the video explains - practice - dedication - proper resources. Let me add the need for a reason to learn. It is possible. Don’t give up, if you can't learn 1000 in a month it isn't the end of the world!
We have a small Japanese restaurant where I live that I've been going to since I was in high school, and one day, my wife and I sat at the bar. The sushi chef behind the counter was relaying orders in Japanese, and I understood most of what they were saying, so I struck up a conversation. He told me that even for Japanese people, learning the language is hard, and it honestly gave me so much encouragement to know that even native speakers struggle with learning the language. Made the task of continuing to try to learn Japanese seem less stressful and daunting.
I actually find kanji easier to remember than regular hiragana words now. I'll always remember what 所 or 許可 means because they are unique and the radicals can help, but I have to second guess myself every time I see a word like なぜ and can't quite remember the meaning because there's nothing about the form of the word to hint at the meaning. I used Anki, lots of mnemonics, and lots of reading practice to learn how to read about 1000 kanji in about 3 months. I didn't study the readings for each kanji separately, I focused on learning the common vocabulary that is paired with each Kanji. For example, I don't know every individual reading of every kanji for 教科書, but I know when all 3 kanji are together it's pronounced きょうかしょ and means textbook. A kanji like 怖い I remember because the vertical strokes look like scary knives and I always make sure not to confuse こわい and かわいい. It actually throws me off when Japanese people write words that usually have kanji in hiragana. I saw なに in a tweet the other day and my brain didn't immediately piece together that they meant 何 until after I looked it up.
First time watching. Thank you for the in depth explanation! I've been using MochiKanji for a little now and I've completed 7 lessons for the JLPT N5 Course. I do occasionally forget some characters. Does the app bring you back to that Kanji sooner than it planned?
Hi Thank you for your comment and support! Oh no>< I'm so sorry for the audio issue. I'll try to fix it asap. Thank you for letting me know. にほんごいっしょにがんばりましょうね^^
I am currently learning Chinese and after that I want to learn Japanese. Right now I am learning Simplified Chinese. I have been learning about 7 months and I think I have been learning around 700-800 Chinese Hanzi characters. Learning and memorizing 1000 characters in 1 month is not for me unless I switch all my life into learning the language. Btw your English is nice to hear :)
I wrote a program (Access database) which has all the kanji, and it allows you to read the E and J of the kanji then I try to write the kanji and if it is correct I tick the box and that kanji does not show up again when I study. It allows me to study each JLPT level, but also I have a list of the most common kanji, but if I get a kanji correct from say L2, it also does not appear when I study other groups like top 1000 kanji. But this is only one part because if you can't put context to the kanji, then you don't learn it eg the 丈 in 大丈夫 (daijyoubu) does not seem useful to learn until yo learn the and meaning of daijyoubu. On top of that, it is really easy to forget over time, so it is non-stop learning and refreshing. I know many Japanese who can't write kanji although they can type it. I like to make oyaji gas from them like 窓 (mado, window) looks like an old French man with a beret, tow droopy eyes and a moustache and mouth. Or "migimouth [mouse] is always right" kanji for right 右 and left 左 are similar but is migi has the mouth radical. BTW I don't sell it, I just made it for myself.
the problem is not the similarity of hiragana and katakana,sometimes there is a similarity between katakana and kanji wich is a big problem ex:ロro/口kuchi
I have been learning Japanese on my own, on and off for a number of years. Failed N4 three times before finally clearing it. I have no problems with Kanji since I know Chinese but its the Katagana that really stumps me. Its really difficult for my brain to internalise the 2 alphabets that go with each sound, without mixing them up. I have decided to just completely practice and master hiragana and ignore katagana. If I cant recall the katagana I will just look it up. Hope it works.
Hi Thank you for your comment and support! I really do appreciate it and so sorry for the audio problem>< thank you for letting me know about the issue. I'll try to fix it asap. いっしょに日本語がんばっていきましょう!^^
I think for me, i can memorize something if i directly take a kanji quiz even though i don't know the kanji, the repetitive mistakes i make on the quiz makes me remember the correct answer, that's when the app you're using let's you see the correct answer before proceeding to the next question 😅
ありがとう I want to learn before i travel. Just a information your voice is only on one side. At first i couldn't listen to you because i use only one side
All these apps and spaced repetition things. None of it work and it's all very very tedious. Just buy some novels and check the kanji with your phone's google translate app. So much easier and takes no time. This is how I learned all my kanji. No apps, no studying, just reading my favourite books.
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